Some scientists call these changes minor errors, but it's enough to confound the human immune system.
Individuals can (and regularly do) have conversations that confound institutions, because these conversations lie beyond any institutional zone of control.
But you will confound your senses if you mix a formerly aversive taste with an appetitive one. (Care for some pickles and cocoa?)
Don't confound the means with the ends.
Its perfume-like packaging should break through the crowded product assortments that can often confound shoppers.
The functions of basophils, one of the first immune cells to be identified, continue to confound researchers.
Non-linear relationships confound traditional linear cause and effect: the flapping of butterfly wings in Japan can cause hurricanes in the Caribbean.
You must not confound my meaning.
At times they go so far as to confound right and wrong and turn things upside down.
Such as facial attractiveness, height and even social status tend to confound any attempt to judge the relative merits of a person's gyrations.
The labyrinths were supposed to confound any enemies who might get in.
He is at bottom a deeply old-fashioned Conservative; so old-fashioned, in fact, as to confound the expectations shaped by recent Tory history.
Firstly, never underestimate the ability of markets to confound investors' expectations.
Let no fear or foe confound thee.
Don’t confound this behavior by truncating the total results set at a round number like 100 or 500; this makes it difficult for users like Andrea to gauge the quality of her query.
And Time that gave, doth now his gift confound.
He was said to be confound at, then ran to, in a blink of an eye disappeared.
The glitter of official lies and the epic splendor of JFK's funeral confuse the eye and confound the understanding.
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