"It's confounding to U.S. exporters, it's confounding to U.S. workers and it's confounding to our overseas buyers," he said.
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Crook & Marker was a confounding one for the group.
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Or was something more confounding — and insidious — at work?
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But sometimes Alexa's ability to understand the commands was confounding.
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In part, the confusion comes from the confounding Civil itself.
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Still, there has always been a confounding factor: gendered behavior.
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For Astrid, the public's embrace of her brother was confounding.
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Now add in the confounding element of other people's, too.
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Others might be confounding: Wait, we went to a BAR?
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The event, as always, was a confounding and delightful experience.
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We're a confounding and consequently diminished suitor, here and elsewhere.
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Wall Street's index of volatility has been falling — confounding experts.
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It's a confounding picture, conceptually arresting — visually, not so much.
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The premise of "Escaped Alone" is both simple and confounding.
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Which brings us to the last and most confounding issue.
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It had been one of Wall Street's more confounding streaks.
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And does so in a way that's confounding to follow.
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I found it haunting, thrilling and confounding in equal measure.
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But as confounding as it was, it was also exhilarating.
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The effect, then, of "confounding diseases" is "unknown," he added.
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Exports dropped 20.24 percent, confounding expectations for a 20.12-percent gain.
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The confounding tweet put trans service members in limbo for months.
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That's the crockery conundrum confounding Internet users in Taiwan and China.
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Perhaps the most confounding thing about bitcoin is its origin story.
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That makes nutrition research even more difficult, introducing another confounding factor.
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All sorts of confounding factors and overlooked connections can skew conclusions.
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Politicians offer up much by way of raw, often confounding, material.
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Its successes come from tricking the mind and confounding the eyes.
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Confounding observations have a way of leading astronomers to desperate explanations.
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But those forces are already confounding policymakers in Europe and Japan.
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Both projects made for great news items but somewhat confounding art.
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Exports dropped 4.4 percent, confounding expectations for a 3-percent gain.
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And that, in these confounding times, is a big ole plus.
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But ol' Brad Oberhofer's always been a kind of confounding sort.
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Even so, some straphangers reported smooth, on-time service, confounding expectations.
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Exports dropped 21.14710 percent, confounding expectations for a 26.4 percent gain.
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Alabama poses a confounding test because the circumstances are so extreme.
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The swipe was not only misleading, but confounding given the instigator.
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Exports dropped 4.4 percent, confounding expectations for a 20.9-percent gain.
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Why was the interface still confounding me after weeks and weeks?
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Definitely, in terms of confounding audiences, he's real good at that.
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It was a complete confounding of everything Houston tried to do.
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Television watching in 2016 is a wondrous and, often, confounding experience.
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It was always multiple and contradictory, a collection of confounding simultaneities.
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The mystery is almost as confounding as that "Teddy Perkins" episode.
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There are still occasional, confounding slowdowns, especially when waking from sleep.
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This long list of confounding challenges need not hinder policy solutions.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Brexit is so confusing it's even confounding the robots.
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That would take a major confounding factor out of their evolutionary story.
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However, in recent years, more confounding types of passing have made headlines.
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What's confounding to these merchants is that Amazon isn't some unsophisticated retailer.
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There, bet on TPP confounding the undertakers and rising from the dead.
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Paratopic ends abruptly, but the plot doesn't seem deliberately confounding, just underdrawn.
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These are also on the rise, further confounding the Thanksgiving dinner table.
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But perhaps there are other factors confounding the interpretation of these pictures?
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Of course, we revel in the idea of confounding people's expectations too.
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Our coach's wisdom was less patchouli-scented, and every bit as confounding.
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But Mr. Kushner, new to government, has found it confounding at times.
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Its most resounding and confounding recommendation: Stay out of the superstar cities.
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And dramatically she drew out every elusive nuance of this confounding character.
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Trump does, all the time, and it's alternately annoying, confounding and galling.
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But even Steltner found the phone calls he received that morning confounding.
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But it's also one of the more confounding entries in the series.
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The address mixup is as comforting as it is confounding, Glaub said.
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For New Zealand, the case is a confounding challenge on many fronts.
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This could eliminate the problem of confounding factors in the observational studies.
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You're one year old, and no less confounding to the outside world.
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Will Trump time an announcement just before the mid-term, confounding his critics?
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Rohrer shows that these issues are not as confounding as they first appear.
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Which is why it is notable — and, to many conservatives, confounding — that Rep.
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Still confounding the art world, they plan to call it China Art Objects.
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That his sons act nothing like their father makes his behavior more confounding.
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Why the company continues to try to say different is confounding to me.
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The big SUV is dripping in technology, but it's never intimidating or confounding.
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Unless studies are well-designed, the results can be influenced by confounding factors.
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Here's a sample, based on NBC's work, that shows how confounding he is.
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Other children's cerebellar issues are just one of an array of confounding factors.
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Which is why USC's snub, after a 24.5-1003 season, was so confounding.
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Scholars are using increasingly sophisticated methods in order to eliminate potential confounding factors.
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They also looked for possible confounding factors, like unstable but war-free governments.
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That comes in very handy when the script compels them toward confounding decisions.
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When they're bad, it's confounding considering the prices people pay to be there.
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It is baseball's most confounding pitch, but it also offers the most hope.
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Form's duality of exclusion and inclusion made the festival both fascinating and confounding.
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As for Carlotta, Ms. Cotillard sometimes plays her with confounding, slow-motion swagger.
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A Monday puzzle can't be fabricated with a confounding theme and easy clues.
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The link between steroids — such as testosterone — and rage is another confounding factor.
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Silence amid a roomful of people giving set speeches — how startling and confounding.
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His (and others') misunderstanding of Donald Trump has been extremely confounding to me.
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But his movie is as miserable and ultimately confounding as it is earnest.
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What was confounding to me was how little we know about that extinction.
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The health care repeal failure was both confounding and disappointing for many conservatives.
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His star power remains one of modern entertainment's most salient and confounding draws.
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But Joe Biden is perhaps the most confounding candidate in this Democratic race.
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If Los Angeles is a confounding feast Santa Barbara is an amuse bouche.
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His quick, confounding mind leapt from one association to another at turbocharged speed.
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It's very possible that the Parker mission will just generate more confounding mysteries.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 is full of stuff like this, and it's confounding.
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Those studying vaccines, too, need to be aware of the confounding effects of hygiene.
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Perhaps most confounding question: Where does Guy Fieri get his internationally inspired menu ideas?
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I'm genuinely not sure how best to think about this confounding, deeply unsatisfying movie.
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Last year, the IR2 camera spotted a vortex in the Venusian clouds, confounding researchers.
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And this is on top of all of the usual confounding search engine noise.
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This is especially true with popcorn, which has a confounding mass-to-substance ratio.
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Snapchat alleviates these pressures, and its most confounding elements are also its greatest strengths.
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There's no way a study like this could perfectly measure confounding factors like that.
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But that hasn't happened to a meaningful degree today, defying expectations and confounding economists.
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All too often, national health crises present confounding dilemmas with no clear, obtainable solutions.
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We've been muddling through without them ever since, often confounding pessimists along the way.
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The decision to ease sanctions against ZTE is confounding because it undermines American workers.
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Yet in another confounding twist, a significant minority of Trump supporters were minorities themselves.
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Mr. Trump is a presence even when offscreen, confounding campaign hands and analysts alike.
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A series of confounding procedural hearings have repeatedly delayed the start of the trial.
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Bitcoin is a fascinating, confounding, and beautifully efficient way for people to horde value.
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Anderson saw this as a confounding unwillingness to walk through open doors of opportunity.
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"This confounding ignorance about the economy's current performance matters a great deal," he wrote.
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When asked about their bad habits in a national study, their explanations seemed confounding.
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More than 300 miles away, another gruesome discovery made the case still more confounding.
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Such studies are also difficult to interpret because of what are called confounding factors.
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Trying to guess McCain's next move is confounding a lot of the experts again.
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Woodland's hopes for victory were undone by the confounding crosswinds on the closing holes.
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One reason is that eliminating so-called confounding variables in studies produces cleaner results.
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The campaign has been paying popular memers and confounding social media companies' ad policies.
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I think it can be a confounding thing when you have that much power.
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Slobber was a confounding factor for a while, but they've worked out some fixes.
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Why he matters Kanye's constant resets are thrilling, confounding and, on occasion, game-changing.
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Can dietary and lifestyle changes help women dealing with complex and confounding hormonal issues?
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Life, especially in Egypt, can be confounding and exasperating, then suddenly filled with enchantment.
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The claim of executive privilege over the entire Mueller report is most confounding of all.
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And from bullying, we move on to the confounding drama that surrounded Caelynn this season.
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"Us publishing not only deprives them of this ability but is beautifully confounding," WikiLeaks argued.
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Not to mention that these studies are tangled up by all kinds of confounding factors.
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Besides, artists' (often confounding) statements aren't always the most straightforward guide to their own work.
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But all three studies present one major confounding factor to their findings: the cohort effect.
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But the analysis gets more confounding when you consider the various credit cards on offer.
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It may be why issues of privacy and privacy legislation feel so confounding right now.
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The central bank did not raise rates at its last meeting in July, confounding expectations.
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Researchers try to control for these "confounding factors," but they can't capture all of them.
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This detail is the first in a number of confounding narrative twists Second Act employs.
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To make matters worse, these confounding files are encrypted on the 3DS, further impeding progress.
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But the more complex a sport is, the more confounding factors—or excuses—there are.
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And appealing to seniors is not new to Buttigieg -- even if it remains somewhat confounding.
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That doesn't explain the confounding mishmash of a plot The Dark Tower ends up with.
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It's a really confounding disorder and there are so many facets that go into it.
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It's size, given the universe was just 5% of its current age, is also confounding.
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Future unsupervised governments would feel free to replicate Puerto Rico's crushing and confounding debt structure.
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I had thousands of conversations in that costume, some fun, some heartfelt, some utterly confounding.
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The paintings and works on paper in her current show are unexpected, confounding, and witty.
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The result is at once consuming and confounding, a private puzzle cached inside a blockbuster.
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Read more:The mysterious spate of vape-related deaths and illnesses continues to grow, confounding experts.
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The keyboard is more evidence of the sometimes-confounding group-think nature of this device.
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That would be the confounding, cohesive and divisive document that is the United States Constitution.
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In the real world, it's difficult to test this because of so many confounding factors.
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Ms. Thierry plays Marguerite with an understatement that can be enigmatic, seductive, or deliberately confounding.
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The selection of the president was one of the most confounding decisions the Framers faced.
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"Joe Biden's confounding candidacy," by Walter Shapiro Small crowds and a good chance to win.
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Plenty of interesting fill, too, and clues that ranged from confounding to sunny and funny.
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Mr. Ramos also made a valiant attempt to bring up the confounding question of Venezuela.
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Plenty of interesting fill, too, and clues that ranged from confounding to sunny and funny.
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Considering its efforts around the actual video content, though, the Facebook Watch interface is confounding.
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Oddly emotional and terrifying, its textures and vibes are confounding and enrapturing in equal measure.
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The study has other caveats, including the confounding role of genes, which strongly influence fitness.
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Meanwhile, Byrne is the lead detective on a confounding case of grotesque and seemingly random killings.
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That kind of logic is confounding to women like Gay, who embrace their identity as feminists.
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He then abruptly revoked India's special trading status with the United States, further confounding the outlook.
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It seems even more confounding, though, because it doesn't involve how a person holds an iPhone.
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The oil cycle has been confounding because there is much disagreement about the industry, Cramer said.
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It is an unsettling and confounding to watch characters so indifferent to an obviously deteriorating situation.
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Despite Twitter's countless calls to increase transparency, its abuse report infrastructure remains opaque and sometimes confounding.
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Given the observational nature of the study the possibility of unmeasured confounding factors exists, researchers noted.
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One potentially confounding factor is that many of the men with high grade tumors also smoked.
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Given that this was sold as the major hook of the season, it's a little confounding.
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The comprehensive study analyzes a ton of data and does lots to correct for confounding factors.
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But for "Game of Thrones," which has thrived on confounding expectations, that might be too predictable.
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And true to this latest narrative's grammarian nightmare theme, Trump did it with a confounding declaration.
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But it's not "fake news," and it shows just how confounding talking about misinformation has gotten.
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He takes the mic, delivers a cunning, confounding performance, and disappears while your head's still spinning.
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The studio version of "This Is America" is no less confounding than last night's live performance.
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But this summer, the sheer number of them -- and their proximity to humans -- is confounding beachgoers.
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The spaces in those synths are just too cavernous, and the straightforwardness is just too confounding.
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These entries are so confounding that it's best to only "watch them" while doing something else.
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In addition to confounding different illegal foreign national subgroups, politicians also perpetuate misconceptions to garner votes.
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But that's exactly what happened on Wednesday, confounding many analysts who predicted higher long-term rates.
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Read more: The mysterious spate of vape-related deaths and illnesses continues to grow, confounding experts.
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No player can match the marquee value of Rodriguez, with his dazzling highs and confounding lows.
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Most confounding are those buildings whose stairs are at entirely different entrances from the main lobby.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - For tech companies, there was a confounding juxtaposition in the news this week.
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It's what got him interested in ideas about confounding perspective and playing with familiar American tropes.
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But it is confounding to see where many students draw a line between right and wrong.
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Some people have written off the latest season because it didn't tell one major, confounding story.
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This particular aspect of the film makes it exciting to watch, but can also be confounding.
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It was a confounding paradigm that created some unfortunate acronyms: VAK, VKA, KAV and so forth.
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Resembling landscapes, complete with intimations of rivers, mountains, and valleys, they are, upon first sight, confounding.
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Spain's coronavirus mortality rate, like Italy's, has been significantly higher than in other countries, confounding authorities.
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Critic's Pick The conceptual photographer's transfixing show at Gagosian includes confounding diptychs and a cinematic triptych.
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A question for Kamala Harris Kamala Harris is the most confounding candidate in the Democratic field.
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What is more confounding, though, is the fact that the migration crisis is over in Germany.
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Even in the sometimes confounding world of Hollywood copyrights, this odyssey was "exceptional," Mr. Stark said.
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Peeing, which he needed to do frequently, became confounding, despite instruction from an exhaustion-addled granddaughter.
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But there's insufficient depth of insight here to provide a satisfying appreciation of the confounding Durocher.
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The state's contrarian voters have been confounding journalists and political consultants for most of my lifetime.
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While life can be solitary and confounding, we still share the burden of reasoning through it.
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Ms. Kawakubo's work can be confounding, and the explanations she occasionally gives are gnomic at best.
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Anonymous buildings have long peppered the city, confounding and aggravating tourists, locals, takeout deliverers and movers.
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And then ... during a Sunday briefing on Hurricane Dorian, he offered his most confounding version yet.
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Or is it all more ambiguous and confounding, an unresolved emptiness as hard as a rock?
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First Reformed is a confounding stunner of a movie and richly deserves our full, serious attention.
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They could not factor out confounding behaviors, such as smoking, which can lead to blood clots.
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Between the lines: The Fed's more esoteric announcements were even more disappointing and confounding, investors said.
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But, with negative rates and chronic low growth confounding central banks, the idea is picking up credibility.
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Predicting where it's going is a matter of mashing up thousands of variables in massive, confounding systems.
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She'll show you the dark magic behind her confounding confections in The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell.
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The outermost layer of the brain, the cortex, is a confounding geography of furrows, folds, and wrinkles.
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Capital expenditure gained 0.2 percent in the first quarter, confounding market expectations for a 0.4 percent fall.
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Now, more than ever, its boundary-blurring, label-confounding vibe — what's really "outsider," and what really isn't?
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A Star Is Born's identity problem is exacerbated by the Golden Globes' confounding Musical/Comedy category itself.
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One confounding thing about the paper is that many seemingly similar programs have very different estimated returns.
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But before I dig into the confounding nitty-gritty, let's first look at this new coupe's details.
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The way the candidate tangles up the truth, confounding and soft-soaping his interviewers, requires constant vigilance.
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What makes all this so confounding is that Trump clearly recognizes the threat of sea level rise.
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The euro area's PMI also fell, confounding expectations that activity there would recover after fresh monetary stimulus.
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Trump's public comments on healthcare, though, have sometimes conflicted with the plan on his website, confounding experts.
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But Trump is likely to have more difficulty working with Riyadh in the future, confounding both sides.
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Free agency is a confounding phenomenon for any sports fan, but particularly so in mixed martial arts.
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It's especially confounding given the buried acknowledgement that none of it was meant to impugn her claims.
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Most notable and confounding are the drawings completed in collaboration with police officers of Paris's 14th District.
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It's a confounding rationale — people are generally made safer with more access to health care, not less.
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Asylum seekers are thus saddled with a confounding burden of proof in an entirely unfamiliar legal system.
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During his brief fireball of a career, the rapper Tupac Shakur was a galvanic, frequently confounding figure.
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What a difference a decade makes, especially one as chaotic, confounding, exciting and disruptive as the 2010s.
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As "The Sopranos" baton pass demonstrated, the TV business has a way of confounding expectations and predictions.
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The opening pages present a confounding mystery: Who — or what — has placed a baby on Mary's steps?
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And the barrage of statements from the city and state took on a confounding, tennis-match quality.
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In fact, when she emailed him on the eve of her wedding, he gave her confounding advice.
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Without getting into specifics, it merges stories that have never been merged, and asks large, confounding questions.
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That's what makes it so confounding that Samsung won't be shipping the phone with Bixby's standout feature intact.
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Researchers can try to control for some of these "confounding factors," but they can't catch all of them.
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International dairy prices fell at a fortnightly GlobalDairyTrade auction, confounding expectations for a rise and disappointing kiwi bulls.
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Our commentary "Confounding All Expectations, Donald J. Trump Elected U.S. President" hit our clients' inboxes by 8 a.m.
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It fulfills Android's ultimate promise of customization, which is why the rumor of its demise is equally confounding.
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It's super compelling, but the confounding cliffhanger, for lack of a better word, hangs over the whole episode.
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There are confounding factors, like decadal climate oscillations, and regional temperature rebounds after we clean up air pollution.
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Offering some hope for policymakers, capital expenditure rose 1.4 percent, confounding market expectations for a 0.2 percent decrease.
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Playing music and lining a garden with pinwheels creates a scene so confounding, woodchucks may hit the road.
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In it's own twisted, psychedelic, confounding way, it happily plays with the slightly patronizing conventions of rural-ambience.
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The confounding consensus arrives after one of the creepiest moments on one of TV's already-very-creepy dramas.
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Since then, the economy has performed more strongly than the Bank forecast, confounding its forecasts of near-stagnation.
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It's confounding why manufacturers won't support basic safeguards to protect their customers as well as billions in investments.
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In May alone, house prices were 0.4 percent higher than in April, confounding forecasts for 0.1 percent drop.
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On Monday, data showed Japan's economy unexpectedly expanded in the first quarter, confounding expectations that GDP would contract.
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Like so much else in this confounding election, the answers explode just about everything we thought we knew.
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This impression of detail, where no actual detail can be found on the canvas, is mesmerizing and confounding.
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A few days later, Montreal General Manager Marc Bergevin gave a confounding explanation that fueled more conspiracy theories.
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Still, his most confounding accomplishment may have been his downright eerie dominance during the last week of September.
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Leave too much space between the dots and you risk utterly confounding the viewer and pushing them away.
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Retail sales jumped 9.8% - the fastest since March 2018 - and confounding expectations for a slight pullback to 8.3%.
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The action sequences are a confounding rush, which is a grave drawback amid the alleys of the bazaar.
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Charles M. Blow Opinion Columnist It is truly a confounding time to be alive, to be an American.
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She wore them with the confidence only Ms. Lopez could bring to an otherwise confounding pair of shoes.
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But with Brexit uncertainty confounding the issue, UK-based finance houses in particular are finding it tough going.
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The finding has implications for injury recovery and also underscores how capable and confounding our bodies can be.
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Economic growth was resilient in 22, confounding forecasts of a quick and painful hit after June's Brexit vote.
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To accomplish human studies, large samples of people and microbiomes are needed to account for potential confounding variables.
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Even more confounding are those times when Begley fails to provide readers with enough evidence for her claims.
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I suggested she find ways of connecting with others who find white privilege to be a confounding burden.
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Over 30 hours, Vampyr proved as confounding as it was charming, which is why it's so damn memorable.
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Ms Handel won the run-off on June 20th by four points, confounding polls that predicted a closer result.
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He is making a game that is as broken—as confounding, unresolved, and tragically beautiful—as the world itself.
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A strength of this approach is that it enabled us to separate the policy's effect from other, confounding influences.
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But the local outbreak of Zika was not as severe or as widespread as in the northeast, confounding scientists.
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Still, this confounding hatred leads Reggie to join Archie's vendetta against two of Hiram Lodges' (Mark Consuelos) mob rivals.
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"China expresses grave concern over this kind of confounding of right and wrong," Hua told a regular news briefing.
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Political and ideological issues aside, perhaps most confounding is the decision to choose camp as the theme at all.
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These are among the many confounding factors that could also have contributed to the higher rate of heart attacks.
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Scientists hope drone projects like this will continue to produce enticing glimpses into nature's most confounding nooks and crannies.
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And that's a very rare type of site that can do that without the confounding factor of human disturbance.
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Genetically identical animals are useful in research because confounding factors caused by genetic variability in animals can complicate experiments.
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It's somehow both experimental and educational, and it's been delighting and confounding audiences on the festival circuit this year.
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Observational studies are also riddled with confounding factors, the unmeasured variables that may actually give rise to certain outcomes.
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Throughout his time in the race, he's offered a treasure trove of alternately odd, amusing and occasionally confounding statements.
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The music that Boston-based producer Thatcher May makes under the name Sports Coach is, in a word, confounding.
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For the CIA, hedge funds and the largest retail enterprises, the confounding problem is the same: too much data.
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On the month, retail sales decreased by 0.3 percent, confounding the Reuters consensus forecast for a 0.3 percent increase.
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The truly confounding thing about this attempt to radically remake the TPPP is that Americans overwhelmingly support sex education.
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An eight-year Islanders veteran, Bailey had perplexed his coaches and fans with a confounding lack of offensive production.
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The confounding part is that NASH is "silent"; it does not present symptoms until late in the disease's progression.
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After his confounding childhood, he had found a world where he could be always in control and in mind.
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But Iraq has a way of confounding even the best-laid plans, and the president's critics see it differently.
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The confounding, invigorating music of Yeezus looked forward but its embrace of misguided rebellion began Kanye West's slide backwards.
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On Thursday, the Houston Rockets suffered one of the most confounding home losses in NBA playoff elimination game history.
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On the year, shops sold 2.1 percent less in February, confounding forecasts for a 0.3 percent increase in sales.
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From impeachment to the Russia probe, he's gotten away with it before, escaping scrapes unscathed and confounding his enemies.
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But that confounding trip, part of a malaise that lasted nearly two years, is now part of the past.
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It seems that's when that confounding IG algorithm got busy ... leading to a flyer posted by Smiles Trust Inc.
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It has gone from one of the most confounding pizzerias in the city to one of the most enjoyable.
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Critic's Notebook He was one of the most acclaimed — and confounding — architects of the 230s; then his reputation tanked.
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For some school administrators, the clothing has presented a confounding problem, and they have struggled to address its popularity.
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The vicissitudes of history always challenge us in new and often confounding ways; that's in the nature of things.
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It's handsome in parts and confounding in others: Why include even a second of the ever-popular floss dance?
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The nonenforcement stems from the confounding fact that New York City and New York State run competing recycling programs.
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There's another confounding detail in the gender-representation gap: While Democrats are getting better, Republicans still lag far behind.
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The finding held even after researchers adjusted for confounding factors such as smoking, physical activity level and alcohol use.
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The resulting clips are adorable, confounding, and a great example of just how little we know about cat cognition.
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This move was all the more confounding because Sessions waited until immediately after California had begun legal marijuana sales.
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Editorial This week's efforts to repeal a cruel and discriminatory North Carolina law were procedurally confusing and politically confounding.
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The Slovenian band Laibach is best appreciated not as a music group but as a deliberately confounding aesthetic construct.
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Confounding the pejorative-or-not question that surrounds the word is its new proximity to the idea of representation.
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Overnight, Lil Dicky resurfaced with his most confounding project yet—a star-studded single and video about climate change.
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All told, the film is a confounding meditation on what it means to truly exist — and it's wholly original.
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The Rangers have gone 25 games without consecutive victories, a confounding situation for a team that started 873-3-2.
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In a modestly confounding move, Twitter has won a bid to stream NFL games on Thursday nights this upcoming season.
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The fish in their natural habitat have fewer of these confounding factors, making it easier to pick out what matters.
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This question has been asked repeatedly since the financial crisis, but has only grown more confounding over the last year.
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He wants to talk about mites and disappearing forage and the vast and confounding spectrum of other threats to honeybees.
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Between Shogun World and the symbolism behind Bernard's red pearl, we are trying to make sense of this confounding show.
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The revised home screen layout certainly makes more sense than the bloated, confounding mess that's on my phone right now.
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A similar idea shows up in the frenetic, confounding Brazilian film Bacurau, from directors Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho.
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You've mentioned that it's confounding to watch other people live really happy lives because it's a foreign concept to you.
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It is a series of speeches and depositions, a whirlwind of discourse surrounding a terrible and confounding act of violence.
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On the year, retail sales also fell by 1.9 percent, confounding a Reuters consensus forecast for a 2.8 percent increase.
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These are the kinds of confounding moments that I love to see disentangled, that I long to know more about.
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Most confounding of all, two teams might have nearly identical makeups, with overlapping memberships, but radically different levels of effectiveness.
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It's one of those things that make handling a very large phone easier and its removal is confounding and frustrating.
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This helped weed out possible confounding factors, given that your average astronaut is far healthier than the population at large.
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Mixing ambitious installation, video, sculpture, photography, and virtual reality, the exhibit offers a seamless yet intentionally confounding, experience for viewers.
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Her decisions, at times confounding to watch as the viewer, are provided greater insight by the end of the series.
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The "autonomous vehicle paradox" of inducing drivers to disconnect because they are not needed most of the time is confounding.
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On Wednesday, Vale reported a $133 million quarterly loss, confounding analysts' expectations of a $2.84 billion profit for the period.
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TechCrunch previously reported that this convenient feature — and small semblance of order for Instagram's confounding feed — was on the way.
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But it's confounding because its entering a busy market right before EA's own Battlefield takes a spin in the genre.
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Confounding the pollsters—who had given her a big lead in the state—Hillary Clinton lost Michigan to Bernie Sanders.
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While the result is confounding, and oftentimes maddening, it's not exactly a new development in the world of US politics.
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Mr Sanders received 53% of the vote compared with 47% for Mrs Clinton, confounding polls that suggested she would win.
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It traverses a confounding array of styles, from limpid, neo-Baroque episodes to fogbound, static textures reminiscent of Morton Feldman.
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Ranieri's team, which has been confounding the doubters all season, hit back with its first genuine chance of the game.
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Thanks to the pronunciation of that confounding French "r," we're all in for some confusion for several years to come.
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His determination to have a Sterling Signature Home Run Call for every Yankees homer has led in some confounding directions.
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A water pipeline in Israel, for instance, changed the landscape of the Negev desert to affect weather conditions, confounding forecasters.
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The end of "Annihilation" may have been confounding, but its largely wordless, beautifully choreographed climax had a deeper, subliminal logic.
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Crocs themselves aren't responsible for the confounding relevance of footwear like Birkenstocks and Tevas over the past five-plus years.
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Whether or not the virus has reached your neighborhood, what's swept into everyone's lives is a set of confounding dilemmas.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — In a razed lot near Echo Park Lake stands a confounding sculpture.
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In one of the more counterintuitive conundrums to emerge from this confounding city, the subway has been making people early.
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This central blurriness in the midst of hypercharged description, furthered by a non-chronological structure, is both fascinating and confounding.
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But no story was more confounding — or more illustrative of the difficulties of getting re-entry right — than Erroll's. video
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I count myself among the adults who find this neurological account of adolescent recklessness to be both clarifying and confounding.
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That, in part, is why Mr. Corbyn was written off by many in the 2017 campaign before confounding his critics.
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And what about that disappointing and confounding truth that all children and scientists must grapple with: You can't tickle yourself.
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There's been no shortage of talk about the issue, but what to do about it has proven confounding and elusive.
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The stylistic departure — or arrival — of the novel's concluding section is brave and strange, confounding and intriguing in equal measure.
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But too often Pineda, who was acquired from Seattle in exchange for Jesus Montero before the 2012 season, was confounding.
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The Japanese company did not announce a replacement for Ghosn - confounding reports that Saikawa was to be appointed interim chairman.
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Marijuana is such a confounding drug that scientists and law enforcement are struggling to create an objective standard for marijuana intoxication.
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Apple rightly makes the point that comparing quarters on an apples-to-apples basis is inadvisable and fraught with confounding factors.
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It can be confounding to contemplate: How can a hedge fund profit from destroying the value of what it just bought?
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But this time, many have continued to flood the market with oil and copper even at depressed prices, confounding many economists.
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Adding to this difficulty, there's the confounding task of figuring out which value system to start with in the first place.
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To mark the most anticipated tech-industry flotation since Alibaba's in 2014, The Economist explains how the confounding service actually works.
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The racial strictures and mysteries of the N.F.L. were confounding and long-lasting, and not just reserved for the quarterback position.
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This week the central bank left interest rates on hold, confounding market expectations of a rise and weakening the lira sharply.
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It follows that baseball is a close cousin to them too—which has been even more confounding to the game's aficionados.
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Even controlling for potentially confounding factors like ancestry and health, research shows clear brain differences between low and high SES children.
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The result is a kind of science-fiction face clone, a confounding take on identity and how we view each other.
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Was Bob once again confounding all of our expectations by making a Buddhist statement about the transitory nature of all things?
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Our results aren't that bad, but there are some cases where we've run into confounding results, even after the software update.
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Among the study's limitations is that it could not measure other confounding risks for hypertension, such as inflammation, genetics and obesity.
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And Beltway confrontations are often scored differently outside DC. Trump also has a history of confounding the wisdom of political pundits.
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Exports dropped 4.4 percent, confounding expectations for a 3-percent gain, pointing to further weakening in the world's second-largest economy.
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Adding to the bullish mood, a survey showed Chinese factory growth unexpectedly accelerated in August, confounding forecasts for a slight slowdown.
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Researchers try to use statistics to control for some of these "confounding factors," but it's impossible to catch all of them.
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In a glimmer of hope for policymakers, however, capital expenditure rose 1.4 percent, confounding market expectations for a 0.2 percent decrease.
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Decomposing an environment into simpler subsystems or processes limits the number of inputs, making them easier to control for confounding factors.
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Data from the ministry showed industrial output dropped by 0.3 percent, confounding a Reuters forecast for a rise of 0.4 percent.
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This is frankly confounding: why would you decide to watch an awards show over undead dragons melting fortresses with ice-fire?
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Among the many confounding aspects of the Trump presidency has been the role of Ivanka, his elder, and clearly favored, daughter.
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One of the most frequently asked survey questions nationwide regards the state of race relations, and it offers a confounding counterpoint.
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Of course, New Orleans is not alone in grappling with a confounding trifecta of copious rain, rising seas, and sinking lands.
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During Donald Trump's ascent in the polls last fall, the most confounding question in politics was who, exactly, his supporters were.
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Beyond the paradox of opposition based on safety concerns, it is also confounding to observe this opposition from a historical perspective.
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She embodied the reality, confounding to sexists, that a woman who looked like her could be a radical egalitarian about gender.
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On Wednesday, Scott thanked Tampa police and other law enforcement agencies for working around the clock to solve the confounding case.
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Fifty years ago this spring, Stanley Kubrick's confounding sci-fi masterpiece, " 2001: A Space Odyssey ," had its premières across the country.
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Data from the Economy Ministry showed output fell by 1.0 percent, confounding a Reuters forecast for a rise of 0.3 percent.
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Annual GDP rose a below-trend 2.3 percent, the slowest since mid-2017 and confounding expectations for a 2.5 percent increase.
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More confounding than the existence of investor overconfidence is its persistence: As markets teach us costly lessons, we should grow humble.
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The chemistry between them is real, but it's also confounding, embodied with a charming and slightly ominous bewilderment by both performers.
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The measures can also help mitigate the fallout of a data breach, because user data is stored with other confounding noise.
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But the fate of prisoners when they return home remains a confounding problem, apart from the obvious difficulties of getting work.
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The novel's timely political subject, distressing and confounding, could easily have worked against its success: The risk of didacticism is high.
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There's a historical haze confounding plans to observe the coming 215th anniversary of the ratification of the 153th Amendment in 215.
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Even if Tanaka is healthy — as the Yankees insist — he has been so confounding that he could soon need a break.
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The Morning Show is a confounding series full of actors you like, none of whom seem particularly thrilled to be there.
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The most confounding aspect of the White House budget was that it appeared to double count the effects of economic growth.
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It's personally confounding because this is the America I love, where attitudes are in many ways more tolerant than in Europe.
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The PMI for the bloc's dominant service industry slipped to 53.6 from 53.7, confounding the prediction for a rise to 53.9.
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Industrial output dropped by 1.7% on the month, confounding expectations for a 0.1% rise, figures released by the Statistics Office showed.
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In this, the author hews to tradition, but you need to be a genius yourself to solve his confounding puzzle mysteries.
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The Browns' confounding performance on Sunday, though, was a fresh reminder that a Steelers-Browns rivalry is more illusion than reality.
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The man once hailed as "America's Mayor" is at the center of the most confounding political story of the Trump presidency.
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The latest and most clearly confounding exemplar of this blurrealist trend opens Friday at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan's Meatpacking District.
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In a 2017 interview with The New York Times, Mr. Just said his opinion about "that confounding war" had not changed.
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"We tried to take into account many confounding factors, but it is unlikely that we captured all of them," he says.
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The 1993 murder of Johnston's lover — California businessman Bill McLaughlin — nearly went unsolved, confounding police and prosecutors for more than a decade.
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Annual GDP rose a below-trend 2.3 percent, the slowest pace since mid-2017 and confounding expectations for a 2.5 percent increase.
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Data from the Statistics Office showed industrial output fell by 0.5 percent, confounding a Reuters forecast for an increase of 0.3 percent.
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But for black men, they are especially confounding and made even more grotesque because they're paired with the dehumanizing fact of racism.
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A manufacturing PMI also beat expectations, bouncing to a record high of 60.6 from 60.1, confounding forecasts for a fall to 59.8.
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The task is particularly confounding in the case of "2666," Roberto Bolaño's magnum opus, published after his death at 50 in 2003.
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Ms Handel won the run-off on June 20th by four points, confounding polls that predicted a narrow victory for Mr Ossoff.
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This is what makes the electric Hummer such a confounding product, the solution we need in the vehicle least appropriate for it.
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Researchers try to control for "confounding factors," the unmeasured variables that may lead to one person getting cancer, and another staying healthy.
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It's rather confounding why Jadis would rebuke his offer and decide to imprison the man who showed up with an olive branch.
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Data from the Economy Ministry showed output fell by 0.1 percent, confounding expectations in a Reuters poll for a 0.5 percent rise.
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He attributes the difference to what he calls "residual confounding"—that is, other factors are likely influencing the outcome of the analysis.
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Obradovich said his study controls for possible confounding factors, including when and where a person responded to the survey, and seasonal effects.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that the more confounding something is, the more likely it is to become an internet meme.
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One hundred days into the Trump presidency, however, the businessman-turned-politician has succeeded in confounding his sharpest critics on several fronts.
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Lady Gaga finally apologized for recording 2013's confounding "Do What U Want" with Kelly following increased fan pressure to make amends.
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On the face of it, the conservative activists tasked with choosing the Republican Party's next presidential candidate are in a confounding mood.
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Annual GDP rose a below-trend 2.3 percent, the slowest pace since mid-13 and confounding expectations for a 2.5 percent increase.
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Taken together, the example sentences seemed to suggest a pattern of sexism — one that, once spotted, became ever more obvious and confounding.
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The researchers also adjusted for several confounding cancer risk factors, including age, sex, educational level, family history, smoking and physical activity levels.
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"I'm not sure what is going to come because I find this time across the board extremely frustrating and confounding," she says.
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The book is a biography of the most confounding illness in modern history, one humans have struggled to understand, control and cure.
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On the Internet, he is confounding, cheeky and blunt (a recent tweet: "So good to be back in my own underwear again").
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Douglass embodied the reality, confounding to racists, that a black man could be charismatic, imposing, educated, and a voice for absolute emancipation.
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The legacy of myth and history, after all, is still written with confounding glory and ruin all across America's long-settled frontier.
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Many of our unprecedented climate and carbon challenges are confounding — so when we see an obvious way forward, we should follow it.
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A confounding chemical reaction that turned the diving and polo pools an unsettling shade of green has left many shaking their heads.
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French unemployment also rose in the first three months of 256.2, confounding economists' expectations for a decline, according to separate official data.
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A visit with the artist reveals him to be every bit as brilliant, confounding and heartbreakingly soulful as the pictures he makes.
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It's not news that the social network, whose roiling environs hold over 1.5 billion people, is a complex and sometimes confounding space.
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There's also the confounding factors: poverty can increase the expression of mental illness, and the experience of the diagnosis, as can race.
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It is in the chasm between these two techniques that we run into the larger issues that are proving to be confounding.
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Miniaturization was confounding: how is it possible to make something so small and so perfect, and why in the world would you?
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And it was one of many confounding examples of unidentified flying objects the Pentagon investigated in the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program.
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He doesn't pick up a scalpel for this medical docu-series, but hosts each episode as experts dive into confounding medical crises.
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Drawn to biology and mathematics, Mr. Poppe has described his music as "dented nature," and the directions it takes are pleasurably confounding.
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The outcome, several experts said, can be a confounding mix of overreaction to orders and reluctance to act on one's own initiative.
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The most likely confounding variable, they thought, was some faculty of mind that made people behave as they did under Mesmer's ministrations.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Fertility Rate Again Falls to a Record Low, Confounding Demographers" (news article, May 17): Just wait, demographers!
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Sure, there's a lot about mothering, but the actual beating heart of the series is blank acquiescence to confounding or inappropriate circumstances.
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They belong to the all-embracing culture of the internet, which for them turns out to be a confounding Tower of Babel.
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The brief crash saw the pound fall 6% in a matter of minutes during Asian trading hours to $1.1491, confounding market participants.
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To see years of Ms. Williams' confounding fictions collected in so hefty a volume is like seeing snowflakes accrue into an avalanche.
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Fortunately, they are all quite famous, but without loads of crossing down entries to help, this theme would be confounding, I think.
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Industrial output rose by 0.3% on the month, figures released by the Statistics Office showed, confounding expectations for a drop of 0.1%.
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Mount Sharp is even more confounding to researchers than the crater because its peak is taller than the rim of the crater.
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Separate data from the Economy Ministry showed industrial output dropped by 1.1 percent, confounding the Reuters forecast for a 0.2 percent rise.
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But that means Google may be introducing yet another communications platform, or something similar, into an already confounding ecosystem of existing services.
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Industrial output rose by 0.3% on the month, figures released by the Statistics Office showed, confounding expectations for a drop of 0.1%.
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But between her boss's obstruction and a confounding mass of new developments, a simple investigation is getting more intricate by the day.
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In the tragic opera that has been the Knicks for the past two decades, Jackson will play as a confounding, comic intermezzo.
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PBOC: China's central bank kept the interest rate on its targeted medium-term lending facility (TMLF) unchanged, confounding expectations of a cut.
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There is certainly a lot to talk about — what with all the scandals, palace intrigue, and alarming and often confounding Twitter tirades.
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It's a fittingly sprawling and lyrical tribute to the often confounding late artist, who died a year ago today, April 21, 2016.
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The Markit/CIPS UK PMI fell to 53.4 from 54.2, confounding expectations for a rise to 54.5 in a Reuters poll of economists.
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But for every clear representational victory notched, there's still confounding mixed messaging coming from newer bisexual and queer stars still negotiating their identities.
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In an already absurd sketch, the appearance of Finnish president Sauli Niinistö — literally, or at least televisually, from thin air — was particularly confounding.
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And then there are the confounding details: Why are all the ports on the "brain" unit (including the SD card slot) rear-facing?
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It was confounding then, and it's probably pretty tough to remember now — so here's what you need to know ahead of season 2.
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Tasha: If anything, the disagreement these two characters have seems milder than I expected in a show that's so much about confounding expectations.
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Kyriacou feels this "end-to-end" solution that Microsoft controls and understands is more reliable and less confounding for users than USB-C.
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That's what makes Microsoft's insistence on Windows 10 S so confounding — it puts it at a weird disadvantage right out of the box.
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Identifying the president of the United States, a simple ask of Siri or Google Assistant, seems to be a confounding challenge for Bixby.
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Because Batman v Superman is an atomized mess of a story, with loopy shortcuts, confounding red herrings and overblown dialogue at every turn.
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Her algorithm supposedly takes erratic cycles and other confounding variables into account and grows stronger the more women dump their data into it.
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This is confounding for batsmen, especially as reverse swing tends to occur late in the ball's trajectory, giving them little time to respond.
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"INTERMISSION: fLoWer" is another confounding one, as the wacky lettering bears little relation to the moody mini-ballad, which is sung in Urdu.
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Data from the Economy Ministry showed industrial output fell 0.3 percent in August, confounding a Reuters forecast for a rise of 0.4 percent.
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And so I Googled "health food stores near me" and ventured forth with a very extensive and confounding grocery list for the day.
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A separate gauge of current conditions rose to 59.7 points from 55.0 points in December, confounding expectations for it to fall to 54.0.
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The problem now was the confounding proliferation of mines that ISIS had left behind—and the S.D.F.'s inability to deal with them.
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His arrival does not, however, dispel the melancholy that pervades this deeply compassionate elegy on the confounding sorrows of day-to-day existence.
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But one of the year's most confounding moments happened during the music video of Nelly's Grammy-award winning track "Dilemma" featuring Kelly Rowland.
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But Schmidt and his colleagues controlled for these other confounding influences involved using "instrumental variables," or ones that are independent of personal characteristics.
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This unthinking support is even more confounding than when the president excuses racist violence in Charlottesville or lies about payoffs to porn stars.
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Among the rule changes that have shaken up the N.H.L. this season, nothing has been as constructive and confounding as the coach's challenge.
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Confounding most expectations, he was acknowledging that to stand would be bad for his Socialist party's already slim chances of victory next year.
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Blackouts can be especially confounding for courts and campus officials, because people can keep walking and talking even as their memory shuts down.
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Assessments became even more confounding as significant losses in ACA exchanges prompted the departure of providers and reduction in services covered by insurers.
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For the authorities, one of the most confounding aspects of the sex trade is that Nigerian trafficking victims almost never denounce their captors.
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That was probably always going to be the outcome next season, but it still doesn't make some of McPhee's decisions any less confounding.
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Scientists whose job it is to understand the health benefits (and risks) of alcohol are constantly confronted with occasionally confounding results about it.
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While his early films were sometimes confounding to more mainstream audiences, his latest fare has become increasingly traditional in its narrative and structure.
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In my time with him, I realized that the question who is Maurizio Cattelan isn't just confounding for journalists like me and Axelrod.
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It was a thread that he kept up through last year's stunning, confounding MONGO, a "black self-care mixtape" according to the artist.
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But Mr. Comey's failure to provide any specifics about a new, potentially important development, less than two weeks before Election Day, is confounding.
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"It is extraordinary and confounding how little your administration is doing to counter Putin's campaign to undermine our grand democracy," the Democrats wrote.
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"The Castle" is white hot with the accumulated dismay of this confounding moment, a masterwork that ought to grieve and shame us collectively.
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Since then, he has performed healing sessions that often include cutting into patients without using anesthesia, confounding doctors who have watched in awe.
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It's all very complicated, and the film doesn't seem to arrive at any particular conclusion, which is its most confounding and infuriating characteristic.
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He writes movingly about students who are trying to navigate the confounding, expensive, and intimidating process of getting into and staying in college.
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Trump is confounding the experts with a final push that will either prove to be genius or a reflection of his campaign's desperation.
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He had a knack — confounding the Britons we defeated — for missing the easy throws and then hitting the bull's-eye with improbable consistency.
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Selfish, childish, panic-stricken and bullying, with confounding streaks of exhibitionism and kleptomania, she was, in short, a colossal pain in the ass.
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There is something awesomely confounding about the music of Tyshawn Sorey, the thirty-eight-year-old Newark-born composer, percussionist, pianist, and trombonist.
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But, in the wake of 200's prediction-confounding result, many will be wary of a vote that is much closer-than-expected.
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"ORG" has since been made available, in all its confounding splendor, on a PAL region-free DVD from Arsenal, the German film museum.
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A couple of clues were confounding — I'd never seen PACHISI before, but it was reminiscent enough of "Parcheesi" to make sense to me.
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Housing art galleries, a restaurant and a wine tasting room, the giant glass geometric structure is both impressive and confounding from the outside.
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Dr. Moir, who grew up on a farm in Donnybrook, a small town in Western Australia, had a track record for confounding expectations.
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Rounding out the famous five is Grace Hartigan, whose abstractions frequently integrate figuration and still life, confounding art criticism's norms about stylistic purity.
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This is the tension running through Bombshell, a slick production that never quite seems to know what to do with its confounding subjects.
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The real story is less what this bizarre series of confounding events says about Smollett and more about what it says about us.
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I liked the idea of directing the expectations to a particular place and then confounding them and coming up with something different instead.
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The other connection is their deliberate confounding of the figure-ground relation, which is particularly evident in Siena's "Spoolstone" (2017) and "Hexscilloid" (2018).
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FORGET, their 13th studio album, out February 24 but premiering in full on Noisey today, is another confounding, clattering work from the group.
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A 2007 editorial in JAMA Dermatology acknowledged the difficulty in precisely assessing the connection between mind and skin because of confounding factors like adherence.
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He did point out that calls come from varying social contexts that could affect what the calls sound like and introduce a confounding factor.
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A lot of the research also didn't control for "confounding factors" or all the non-weed variables that may bias the results of studies.
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That misconception may prove all the more confounding for young black boys in a society in which role models are hard to come by.
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But thanks to gravity's light-bending properties, scientists have spotted a confounding thing in the distance: what appears to be the oldest spiral yet.
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This is a question you may have also thought about—but is it a real phenomenon, or are there other confounding factors at play?
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Whatever the reason, MOCA PDC deserves parting attention, largely because its evolutions, successes, and sometimes confounding programming often reflected city-wide cultural identity crises.
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Ally having more fame than Jackson is not some kind of confounding logic puzzle; it's certainly not an impossible situation only escapable by death.
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Current systems at land borders in Hong Kong perform facial recognition through rolled-down windows, simply to avoid the confounding effect of the glass.
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It's further confounding when so serious an artist also manages to be entertaining — and Erdrich never fails to offer the reader that particular pleasure.
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The researchers did their best to minimize confounding factors, but that's next to impossible; smells, body language, and other variables can interfere with results.
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But fate is a solipsistic wall erected between oneself and the world—a world which is always comprised of confounding, frustrating, and mysterious facts.
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Data from the Federal Statistics Office showed industrial output was down by 1.9 percent, confounding a Reuters forecast for an increase of 0.3 percent.
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Bialystok agrees, adding that it is impossible to examine whether bilingualism improves a child's school exam results because there are so many confounding factors.
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Westworld just isn't at that level for me yet, even when I enjoy it or find it confounding or have fun untangling its weirdnesses.
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Her performance as "Reese Witherspoon but married to Adam Scott instead of super-agent James Toth" is equal parts confounding, empathetic, and totally amazing.
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With the upcoming reproduction of Color Problems, a new generation of readers will have the opportunity to experience and appreciate Vanderpoel's innovative, confounding book.
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Discounting helped drive a PMI covering the bloc's dominant service industry up to 24688 from 52.9, also confounding expectations for a dip to 52.8.
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Wax says these observational studies that find a benefit from water births probably overestimate the benefits and underestimate the risks because of confounding factors.
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Justin Vernon and Bon Iver have been in Europe lately for a lengthy run of shows supporting 2016's beautifully confounding 22, A Million.
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It's especially confounding since Radiohead have a history of activism, playing the Tibetan Freedom Concert in 1998 and constantly advocating for climate change awareness.
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What makes this even more confounding is the fact that there is a standard in place for a reasonable time limit for amending resolutions.
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As a Louisiana boy experiencing a confounding sense of déjà vu, let me assure you: There is no way to un-cook the gumbo.
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The lack of crucial data is the latest challenge for the Fed as it attempts to make sense of a confounding global economic picture.
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Washington (CNN)US allies campaigning hard in the halls of Congress to preserve the Iran nuclear deal are finding the process frustrating and confounding.
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No doubt, having the endearing and occasionally confounding players he often refers to in tandem — "D and Sue" — made it easier to say yes.
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This confounding fealty is maddening to some Never Trumpers, who have turned their anger on the people who have stayed loyal to Mr. Trump.
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Forming a subtle division between clay and scrappy figure drawings, Sadie Benning creates a confounding yet dynamic series of hybrid sculpture/painting/photography artwork.
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They'd later adopt pseudonyms—Harem, LTO, and A Levitas—as they released the solo EPs that'd later be collected in the compellingly confounding Compendium.
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They're the beat that builds into a guttural, disorienting jackhammer at the end "I'm Afraid of Americans," confounding the state of things with emotion.
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Neil Landstrumm has been releasing confounding techno floor-fillers since the mid-90s, with releases on Tresor, Planet Mu, and his own Scandinavia imprint.
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In a very real way, Big Red, the beloved and confounding mascot of the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, could only have been born in 1979.
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One of the most confounding things about securities regulation is how difficult it can be for a company to know it's even selling securities.
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Discounting helped drive a PMI covering the bloc's dominant service industry up to 53.1 from 52.9, also confounding expectations for a dip to 52.8.
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In a confounding turn, Mr. Kelly's management also denounced on Friday a statement attributed to the singer that was published by The Associated Press.
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That sentiment was echoed by Dr. Brusatte, who said the situation in Myanmar is the most ethically confounding one he's faced in his career.
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A Cuban attack deliberately targeting Canadians would be even more confounding, given that Canada — unlike the US — has long had friendly ties to Cuba.
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And in the meantime, he's sharing some inaccurate theories and asking confounding questions about how a vaccine might work, all while the cameras roll.
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The fact that productivity and profits are rising, and that unemployment is falling, makes this even more confounding for the trickle-down economic creed.
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But there is a surprising lack of narrative tension, the internal inconsistencies are confounding and we have guessed the denouement long before it arrives.
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Pink, anemone-like fronds waft gently by his feet and a confounding inky darkness extends behind him; but he is oblivious to all this.
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Those two messages can blur, confounding those who seek to classify Western populism as driven by political grievances or social animus but not both.
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Staring at a flock of mixed gulls during winter can be confounding: Their differences are subtle, the birds in pale browns, grays and whites.
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PBOC: China's central bank kept the interest rate on its targeted medium-term lending facility (TMLF) unchanged on Thursday, confounding expectations for a cut.
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However, there was evidence the bloc's dominant services industry is weakening as its PMI dropped to 52.2 from 52.8, confounding expectations for no change.
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Critics of The Last Jedi were upset with Rian Johnson for evading these same questions, but the answers are almost more confounding than silence.
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They speak of the exuberant, confounding and sometimes dangerous disorder of a country free of the rules and regulations that make modern life safe.
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And while there may be possible limitations to the study because of possible confounding factors, it's one we should "pay attention to," Gopalan said.
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This 13-episode examination of ancient Greece's contribution to the modern world (streaming on VHX) is at once illuminating and confounding, heady but playful.
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It's Rachel from "My Cousin Rachel" and Nurse Ansel from "The Blue Lenses": alluring, confounding characters, impossible to classify as victims, saviors or executioners.
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But the inadvertent exposure of customers' data illustrates a problem confounding businesses: Some of their biggest security risks come from their suppliers and contractors.
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Francis Ford Coppola's contemplative and confounding Vietnam War adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" has transfixed audiences since its original release in 1979.
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Words like "confounding" and "singular" and "visionary" get thrown around a lot and can sound like hype, but they actually apply to Robert Ashley.
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But whether or not everything in it qualifies as incontrovertibly beautiful, it's an exciting opportunity to meditate on the perennially confounding questions: What is beauty?
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More than 20 years after her peak in the public eye, the ways we choose to talk about Tonya Harding are still complicated and confounding.
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But it can be confounding in undramatic sequences, with bright blurry bits of clothes and other immovable objects echoing off screen, like dislocated fuzzy chunks.
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While we found that churches actually primed more support for same-sex initiatives, there's ample evidence to support the confounding results in Maryland and Minnesota.
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MOCA PDC, which closed this month, deserves parting attention, largely because its evolutions, successes, and sometimes confounding programming often reflected city-wide cultural identity crises.
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Lindsay Lohan made the confounding decision to accompany a sultry Instagram with a caption expressing sympathy for victims of terrorist attacks in Nice and Turkey.
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The EIA reported gasoline stockpiles rose by 2 million barrels last week, confounding analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 1.1 million barrels drop.
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One of the most confounding areas of research is the battery, a technology that, while invented more than two centuries ago, is still frustrating scientists.
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Mr. James can barely rise from his bed before his senses remind him of the grisly, confounding crime that snatched away his friend and neighbor.
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But, all she can do is unblinking and wordlessly make the hand gesture for scissoring until the credits play, confounding every single person around her.
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However, front-runner Donald Trump wins the prize for the most confounding denial of global warming expressed by a major party's presidential candidate to date.
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But buying gifts that embody that elusive trifecta of stylish, affordable, and original, may be among the most confounding challenges of an already chaotic season.
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Nigerian officials have expressed concern that the country could be flooded with low-priced goods, confounding efforts to encourage moribund local manufacturing and expand farming.
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The first dazzling footage previews the story of Miguel (Gonzalez), whose obsession with music far outweighs his family's confounding generations-long ban on the craft.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece fell into recession again last year, confounding its international creditors who had predicted some growth after years of budget austerity and bailouts.
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The Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose unexpectedly to 72603 from 52.3, confounding a Reuters poll forecast for a drop to 51.8.
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LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Factories across Asia and Europe cranked up production last month as global demand remained strong, confounding expectations growth may have peaked.
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Celeste's current opinion on her husband's confounding and painful history can best be summed up by her therapy conversation with Dr. Amanda Reisman (Robin Weigert).
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The process may sound confounding at first, but the truth is once you're registered and know where and when to vote, that's pretty much it.
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For Mr. Weizman, the "image flotsam," as he calls it, can be as confounding as it can be useful and it needs to be assembled.
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China's imports rose 211 percent in November year-on-year, confounding expectations for a drop of 2100 percent and the strongest gain since September 21.
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Would she continue to charm Arie while confounding the women, or would Kendall be able to come from behind and restore order to the house?
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The Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers' Index(PMI) rose unexpectedly to 52.6 from 52.3, confounding a Reuters poll forecast for a drop to 51.8.
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As monumental as these failures of scientific literacy have been, perhaps the most damaging and confounding has been the left's quixotic fight against nuclear power.
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Each year the lice grew bolder and more robust, breaking my heart and even confounding Big Pharma as they became resistant to the killer shampoos.
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Childhood cancers would be easier to understand, he reasoned, because there would be fewer confounding factors, like the random mutations that accumulate over a lifetime.
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The Rubik's Cube has been confounding kids and adults alike since its invention in 1974, but it was in its heyday in the early '80s.
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There is little coverage of Yemen's complex and confounding conflict, in no small part because Western journalists have been largely blocked from entering the country.
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Be that as it may, it is still a work, both surprising and confounding, that indicates the lyrical and poetic potential of montage-based cinema.
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Frustrated officials cite Trump's friendly overtures to readmit Russia to the G7 group of nations as confounding its ability to properly condemn President Vladimir Putin.
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Donnersmarck takes literally the idea that Richter's paintings know something, and are trying to tell us, in spite of their author's confounding trail of crumbs.
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Despite adjusting for smoking dose and duration in participants, the authors also said they could not rule out confounding by smoking, especially for lung cancer.
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And hundreds of thousands of people streamed into the job market, confounding analysts who have insisted that the pool of potential workers has been depleted.
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Jonathan Chait says liberalism is working, but he cannot believe he is arguing with Marxists, nor how many idiots there are confounding his good sense.
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They know there's something lasting and human and world-changing and completely bonkers that we're hiding behind our molasses-like culture and confounding royalty statements.
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Measles: Clusters of measles outbreaks, some linked and some not, are confounding health officials in places as diverse as Indonesia, Madagascar, the Philippines and Venezuela.
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C. auris, a germ that typically is resistant to major antifungal medications, has been quietly confounding doctors, hospitals and infectious disease scientists around the world.
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It isn't saddled with any confounding principles such as what constitutes socially acceptable or unacceptable behavior or which decisions might result in negative downstream consequences.
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Many of these women are familiar, as Mr. Buttigieg is, with the skepticism that often greets political ambition — but their gender adds a confounding factor.
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A PMI covering manufacturers soared to 58.2 from 57.4, confounding expectations for a fall to 66.13 and chalking up its highest reading since February 2011.
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Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party succeeded in dislodging the Conservatives' parliamentary majority on June 8, confounding predictions that it would suffer heavy losses in the vote.
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The lack of transparency around documents that could potentially show improper use of the Steele dossier might be justifiably confounding for the president, Wisenberg said.
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The movie is generating enormous buzz, confounding the conventional wisdom among Hollywood gatekeepers that billion-dollar franchises have to be anchored by white male actors.
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A PMI covering manufacturers soared to 203 from 220, confounding expectations for a fall to 27542 and chalking up its highest reading since February 24688.
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But whether or not everything in it qualifies as incontrovertibly beautiful, it offers an exciting opportunity to meditate on two perennially confounding questions: What is beauty?
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It found that, even after adjusting for confounding variables such as eating badly or not sleeping, the students' acne worsened as their exams-related stress grew.
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You have an idea, you test it, you test it again, you eliminate confounding factors as best as you can and then you validate your results.
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If the justices divide 4-4 along ideological lines over both gerrymanders when they rule next spring or summer, a confounding state of affairs will ensue.
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The turmoil inside the Republican Party under Donald Trump's divisive candidacy is being mirrored across the Atlantic in Britain, where another outsider is confounding political experts.
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But while the pumpkin spice part makes some sense, from a fragrance perspective (it's earthy and sweet, at least), the latte part is a bit confounding.
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Confounding expectations, core inflation, or prices excluding food and energy, increased by 1.2 percent this month, higher than any analysts in a Reuters poll had predicted.
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And in races with self-funders, there's another confounding factor — if they're facing a really tough race, they're likely to spend even more money on it.
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So Fischer and his colleagues designed four different experiments involving functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), each building on the last, to filter out any confounding elements.
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He also pointed out that there are other confounding factors that could affect a clutch's sex ratio, like which specific individual gave birth to the egg.
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No one is expecting the Apple hardware to be designed around listening to Spotify, but it's frustrating and confounding that Apple won't play ball at all.
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They are Mr. Dylan's entry into the booming celebrity-branded spirits market, the latest career twist for an artist who has spent five decades confounding expectations.
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Seasonally adjusted exports rose 1.5 percent month-on-month - up from a 0.4 percent fall in the previous month, and confounding forecasts of 0.2 percent growth.
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It was probably the world's fastest-growing big advanced economy in 2016, confounding forecasts from the BoE and almost everyone else of a swift Brexit hit.
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Morales is a little bit confounding to me, because I still think he strikes the ball well, and he certainly get his share of home runs.
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Beijing reported exports rose 9.1 percent in January from a year earlier, confounding forecasts of a fall, while imports dipped by a surprisingly slight 1.5 percent.
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The supplementary material in the Lancet paper suggests these and other potential confounding factors may have been pretty important in determining people's alcohol-associated health risks.
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Comey found the allegations confounding, according to his associate, and wondered what to make of what he described as strange thoughts coming from his new boss.
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"This is confounding for people who argue the yield curve is not giving its usual signal on the economy because of central bank action," he said.
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Cahalan's condition is what in medicine is called a "great pretender": a disorder that mimics the symptoms of various disorders, confounding doctors and leading them astray.
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He made 33 of 44 field-goal attempts through the first two games, scoring 79 points, while confounding the Thunder with his one-on-one moves.
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Construction output in February dropped 1.6 percent month-on-month after a 3.1 percent plunge in January - confounding the consensus expectation for a 0.7 percent rebound.
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The meanings of these three names are at best confounding and at worst unnerving, evoking big government, immateriality and darkness both individually and as a group.
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"Inflation has been a confounding factor for the Fed," Schlossberg said, adding that Fed Chair Janet Yellen on Tuesday puzzled over the persistence of low inflation.
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Some fantasized about boning the fish man; others actually brought his biologically confounding, fictional fish dick into the real world and made it into a dildo.
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It's a sound that recently reemerged in conversation, in part because of a confounding absence of producers like Landstrumm in the recent Tresor 25th anniversary celebrations.
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The hierarchy of this year's jury was decided just days earlier in a somewhat confounding manner, according to Matt Hulse, a British filmmaker on the panel.
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Over a dozen informants were killed or imprisoned in the period by the Chinese government, a devastating and confounding setback for the agency, the Times reported.
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On Friday, the three-judge panel came to a confounding — and for many people, deeply troubling — decision: The court had no jurisdiction to consider the question.
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It's unusually challenging to describe the frenetic, confounding Brazilian film Bacurau, which plays out like a particularly wild episode of Black Mirror crossed with a Western.
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These deliberate acts of confounding point out the absurdity of trying to pin gender and sexuality down, and do so with a touch of dark humor.
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It's just the right amount of unsettling — like what you'd expect to hear in the background after a confounding, climactic scene in a great Lynch film.
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Dominic Thiem's former coach, Günter Bresnik, has praised Bencic, 22, as an "unbelievably smart player," and she revels in confounding her opponents on a grass court.
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It's a somewhat idealized scenario — it doesn't contend with confounding factors like geography and culture (more on that in a second) — but it is intriguing nonetheless.
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In the 16 months since the referendum that set Brexit in motion, the British economy has weakened in the face of a confounding array of uncertainties.
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Learning about all the seemingly good guys who do shameful things is what makes this moment, with its frenzied pace of revelations, so painful and confounding.
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The same could be said for her relationship to historical fiction, which all too often relies on period props and a confounding amount of sensual detail.
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I say "almost entirely" because the hour ends with an epilogue so bizarre and confounding that it's tempting to focus only on what it might mean.
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The central bank kept the pound stable at 8.8 to the dollar during its weekly dollar auction on Tuesday, confounding market speculation of an impending devaluation.
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The order, first reported by the magazine Architectural Record, is based on the confounding premise that the United States is experiencing a crisis in civic architecture.
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That widening rift is presenting China with confounding choices between its longstanding ties to North Korea and its hopes for steady relations with the United States.
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Data from the Federal Statistics Office on Thursday showed industrial output was down by 0.4 percent, confounding a Reuters forecast for an increase of 0.7 percent.
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It would take another generation or two before such confounding of orders would become acceptable subject matter, as in the flamboyantly grotteschi paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
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Confounding expectation, Gignac opted to join Tigres in their quest to become the first Mexican club to win Latin America's most prestigious competition, the Copa Libertadores.
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In the videogame world, though, he's celebrated as the creator of Mountain, a beguiling and confounding title about the life of a single mountain, suspended in space.
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Ultimately, Los Alamos Rolodex maintains a certain tongue-in-cheek wink that allows us to come to our own conclusions about the confounding implications of nuclear weapons.
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After controlling for potential confounding factors, the study concluded that cat ownership in pregnancy and childhood did not play a role in developing psychotic symptoms during adolescence.
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Now, while Google was clear that it wasn't naming each state's most famous or iconic dish—but rather its most-searched one—the choices are still confounding.
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That one felt even better, he said, because he had been practicing some mechanical adjustments for weeks during a confounding postseason slump, and especially before Game 24.
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Sergio Mattarella, Italy's president, has until now succeeded in confounding predictions of political chaos following the rejection of Matteo Renzi's referendum on constitutional reform on December 543th.
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But Season 2 turns Nick into a romantic hero, a confounding choice that reflects the writers being much more invested in the character than the audience is.
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What makes the New Hampshire primary so confounding is that these sophisticated New England voters have a long tradition of changing their minds at the last minute.
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While Nadia's ultimate fate is a mystery for now, her confounding entrapment in limbo does feel like a soul sibling to The Good Place and Amazon's Forever.
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For eight years, we patiently subsisted on agonizingly slow servings of information hinting at answers — confounding puzzle pieces that only added to the wonder of that mystery.
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China's manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 50.1 in April from March's reading of 50.5, confounding market expectations that it would hold at the prior level.
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We removed these players to avoid confounding our analyses, but this also meant that we were not able to measure gender differences between the most advanced players.
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In his book The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory, writer John Seabrook explained that the confounding lyrics stemmed from Swedish music masterminds who misunderstood American slang.
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Lynch's style can be mesmerizing even when it's confounding -- from the dissonant sounds to the uncomfortable silences, the quirky humor mixed with a foreboding sense of dread.
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Beginning with warnings of Russian blackmail and ending with confounding presidential statements, this week revealed a White House in deeper trouble than buoyant financial markets have recognized.
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Those daily horrors shall remain one of life's confounding mysteries — tech gremlins we've simply learned to live with, despite putting a man on the moon and all.
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The brand was founded in 2012, and its popularity isn't new, but it's now reaching heights that, to the idle but curious fashion observer, may be confounding.
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Others, like a young black woman dressed in a Yeezy bomber with a confounding Confederate flag patch on one sleeve, sauntered by with an air of unconcern.
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With a lackluster powertrain, uninspired dynamics, low-rent interior trimmings and confounding equipment availability, it's quite the shock that the Yaris is still on sale in 2018.
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Prison is its own confounding gantlet, overseen by an imperious inmate, Freddy (Michael Kenneth Williams, characteristically smoldering), who may matter more to Naz's survival than any judge.
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He said it was "confounding" that Apple hadn't heavily invested in mergers and acquisitions, given its cash position — but the tide may be turning on that front.
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"It's sort of a self-deprecating work," said Ms. Lilley, who admires Mr. Baldessari for his decades of confounding exactly what it means to be an artist.
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Bacurau It's unusually challenging to describe the frenetic, confounding Brazilian film Bacurau, which plays out like a particularly wild episode of Black Mirror crossed with a Western.
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And it's hard to say if other factors influenced the prescribing rates — while the researchers tried to control for confounding variables, they're impossible to fully rule out.
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The aesthetic audacity alone is intriguing; combined with Maureen Jones's icily robotic narration and Dan Deacon's eerie electronic score, the effect is somewhere between confounding and mesmerizing.
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We got looks at Destiny 2: Shadowkeep, Cyberpunk 2077, Gears 5, and, of course, Hideo Kojima's confounding Death Stranding, which somehow is even weirder than you think.
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That's a lot of ifs, maybes and calculations, something that few people in any corner wish to have more of in a program that is already confounding.
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These confounding factors make cash burn — calculated by subtracting the cash balance from total capital raised4 — a more accurate measure of capital efficiency than total capital raised.
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The Crunchbase report goes over the global trend for the year, and that's another confounding factor, actually — how trackable are startup funding dollars across borders these days?
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So as Donald Trump's sneering lawlessness and stupefying corruption continue to escalate, it's confounding, at least to me, that Americans aren't taking to the streets en masse.
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But after last November's World Series triumph, which ended 108 years of confounding misery, anything superstitious no longer applies, at least when it comes to the Cubs.
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But the deeper beguilement is how she manages to create the effect of wholly realized figures while simultaneously confounding so many of our assumptions about the figurative.
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With 6-7 new fresh voices Democrats have to pick from, both men and women, that is what is really confounding the so-called Biden firewall collapse.
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I've often imagined it as a semester-long study of the confounding financing system that defenseless American teenagers must navigate to pay for expensive colleges and universities.
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The technique isn't always successful and the flurry of pop cultural name checks can read like a confounding shorthand — especially the overwhelming array of bands and singers.
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Amid a surprisingly strong start by the Yankees this season, the task of getting Masahiro Tanaka back on track has proved a confounding one for the team.
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Brazil's economy plunged deeper into recession in the third quarter, confounding analysts who expected a gradual recovery to start following the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff.
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For most people of goodwill who find Heidegger's work valuable (and I include myself here), his apparently willing association with the Nazi Party is confounding and infuriating.
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In a way, it's sort of a cool, bold move of DC comics to let their tentpole superhero comic slide into an in-depth, potentially confounding story.
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"This settlement is inconsistent with DOJ's previous position and is as dangerous as it is confounding," the senators wrote in their letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Nothing is more confounding to the smug style than the fact that the average Republican is better educated and has a higher IQ than the average Democrat.
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But given how varied the reasons for infidelity can be, we think it's safe to say that cheating might be one subject that's equally as confounding as horoscopes.
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PEOPLE Pet Vet Dr. Evan Antin was brave enough to face a curious group of children who expected answers to the most confounding questions of the pet world.
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Both indexes are down over 5 percent this year, confounding predictions for double digit percentage point rises, as both have struggled to recover to pre-Brexit referendum levels.
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"Unfortunately, this type of data is difficult to obtain given the small sample sizes at treatment centers, presence of confounding variables and poor patient follow-up," Wiss said.
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The paper's authors, Daron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Pascual Restrepo of Boston University, are careful to exclude confounding causes as best they can.
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But there's yet another confounding design choice that Sonos made with the Playbase as the company readies support for Amazon's Alexa and (hopefully) other voice assistants this year.
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This was all confounding to me, because I'd been raised to think that sex could and should only pop off between someone you loved — or at least liked.
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Excluding oil prices and other volatile components such as food, core consumer price inflation held steady at 1.6 percent, confounding economists' expectations for a rise to 1.8 percent.
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Like literature everywhere, however, that of modern China expresses a confounding mix of history, humanism and aesthetics; it has always done far more than reflect its political context.
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The resulting success – a UK number one album written by a fictional Japanese schoolgirl that deals with moral corruption and modern warfare – is confounding to say the least.
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But that doesn't mean we can't dig in and decipher some of these truly confounding Grammys notables, some of which you already know, and others that you don't.
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Randa Smith and Brian Dekker, the duo formerly known as SOS but now renamed Black Grapefruit, have made one of this year's most confounding and unpredictable pop records.
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said crude stockpiles fell 3 million barrels last week, confounding analysts polled by Reuters who forecast a build of 2.6 million barrels.
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Shanghai blue chips climbed 1.2 percent after the Caixin index of Chinese industry rose to a four-month high of 51.5 in December, confounding forecasts for a decline.
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Season 3, which premieres April 16, will wrap up the confounding-but-beloved series and possibly even give viewers a hint as to what happened to the departed.
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Annual GDP rose a below-trend 2.3 percent to A$1.9 trillion ($1.3 trillion), the slowest pace since mid-2017 and confounding expectations for a 13 percent increase.
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The reason Trump has proven so confounding for many feminist writers is that they have a hard time admitting what she is: a conservative woman practicing liberal feminism.
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The presentations are always ethereal and never conventional (as is its confounding business model), and the brand is always focused on telling a story through artful, improbable design.
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Part of that has to do with centering on an unreliable protagonist who keeps the viewer constantly off guard, an unpredictability that can be alternately bracing and confounding.
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The notion of "buy-in" as the barometer of what's good and right is, I think, dangerously driving certain of the most confounding oddities in our contemporary politics.
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The tacos, so meaty and so spicy, had the confounding taste of two regionally specific flavor profiles effortlessly cooperating as my confused senses gradually contextualized them into one.
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Within a few years, Mr. Dylan was confounding the very notion of folk music, with ever more complex songs and moves toward a more rock 'n' roll sound.
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"Going into the Midwest, the confounding and contradictory nature of Hillary Clinton cannot help but to be on full display," said Jealous, the former president of the NAACP.
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This might seem like a generous ranking for a side who were battered by Belgium in the Round of 16, but Hungary deserve it for confounding their critics.
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"Modi has a knack for thinking out of the box and confounding his critics," argues Manoj Ladwa, a party strategist who oversees communication and strategy for the BJP.
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There are questions raised by this study and others, including how to deal with confounding factors, and how the characteristics of the patients studied may influence their outcomes.
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"Studies of human health are plagued by these confounding factors," Craig said, including when someone was born, where they were born and their socioeconomic status, ethnicity and gender.
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It would be understandable if you didn't want any part of this continually confounding Tennessee team, but Davis could be in for another big day against the Buccaneers.
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All this confounding of expectations is admirable, but that doesn't necessarily equal enjoyable; in some authors' hands, subversion can be buffoonery, and admirable can be didactic and tedious.
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In a result confounding pundits, South Korea's ruling conservatives lost their parliamentary majority in Wednesday's election, after earlier predictions suggested President Park Geun-hye's party would easily win.
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It is grounded in the written word, bathed in Jordan almond shades, and proof that the more you consider camp, the more slippery, confounding and absorbing it becomes.
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But the real heroes for the Yankees were Sanchez, 26, and notably Torres, 22, for rescuing them from what would have been another confounding loss to the Orioles.
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The result has been a confounding array of forces on the ground, including traditional allies now on opposing sides, or aligned in one locale and opposed in another.
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This leads us to the ongoing issue confounding government: Systemic failures at IRS, OPM, State Department, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Postal Service and more.
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But only 5 percent of children drank exclusively noncow's milk, and it's very possible that there are confounding factors in their diet that might lead to this result.
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Which makes all the more confounding reports from CNBC and other outlets last week that immigration officials have no plans to vaccinate detainees before the coming flu season.
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Pineda, a 6-foot-7 right-hander with loose limbs and an ample paunch, has been a confounding presence in the Yankees' rotation for the last three seasons.
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"While we adjusted for these other healthy factors in the study, it doesn't completely take away their potential confounding effects, particularly in the higher-strength group," Brellenthin said.
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There are words, phrases, and concepts that do not exist in the American English lexicon, that confounding colonizer speech that Native Americans were forced to adopt and master.
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Which makes all the more confounding reports from CNBC and other outlets last week that immigration officials have no plans to vaccinate detainees before the coming flu season.
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The practice of haunting occurs when someone ceases contact but continues to follow you on social media, engaging in deeply confounding behavior such as watching your Instagram stories.
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They were the first and last to see this bifurcated view; the dramatic and robust scene through the screens, the confounding half-absent reality behind it, at once.
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The Obama administration also took a confounding, deterrence-focused approach towards Central American asylum seekers and refugees, treating them as illegal entrants when many were fleeing for their lives.
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Image: Alex Cranz/GizmodoAnd it's the passion and vision of the Pixelbook that highlights the completely confounding strategy Google seems to be employing for all its other hardware products.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia posted a small trade surplus in January, confounding expectations for a third monthly deficit, due largely to a slump in imports from persistently weak domestic consumption.
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Data released on Friday showed U.S. nonfarm payrolls only increased by 23,2400 last month, the smallest gain since September 2000 and confounding forecasts for a rise of 22014,23.3 jobs.
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Conservatives are proclaiming the deal that staved off a building Republican revolt in the Senate as a media-confounding coup for the President's unpredictable art of the deal tactics.
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They came up with a way to analyze the data that removed potential confounding factors from the tides and the currents, resulting in a clearer recording of the hum.
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Friday's data showed nonfarm payrolls increased by only 743,000 jobs last month - the fewest in more than 5-1/2-years - confounding forecasts for a rise of 164,000 jobs.
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In future studies of other environmental influences on health, using methylated DNA as a marker of former smoking may help rule out tobacco as a confounding cause, she said.
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Friday's data showed nonfarm payrolls increased by only 21,223 jobs last month, the fewest in more than 1.44543-21.4454/21.4352 years, confounding forecasts for a rise of 216,000 jobs.
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But as the story comes to a close, they opt to wrap it in comforting cliché, and they turn a miserable but credible viewing experience into a confounding one.
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But personal anecdotes, no matter how plentiful or powerful, are no substitute for scientific evidence derived from rigorously designed studies that test alternate hypotheses and control for confounding factors.
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The company replaced its confounding black-on-green mobile design with classic black and white, and the result is an app that is faster and more pleasant to use.
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Oil prices were in sight of a 2016 high on Thursday after U.S. data showed a drop in crude stockpiles, confounding expectations for an increase and easing oversupply fears.
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In reality, the study is so full of confounding factors that, while its authors have done lots of data analysis, they're not clearly demonstrating a successful trans fat ban.
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However, study author Shue Huang says that the study had taken possible confounding variables, including age, sex, physical activity, body mass index, and more, and the association still held.
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But however critical or complicit, the work allegorizes, in confounding and compelling ways, the condition of the ambitious early career artist trying to break into an overcrowded art market.
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Many factors may influence complex systems like a construction project, making it difficult to A/B test the prediction to tease out the input variables from unknown confounding factors.
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One Direction's most recent album, Made in the A.M., didn't take the top slot, but they also made the confounding choice to share a release date with Justin Bieber.
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Yet, the most confounding reason actually involves her husband and his history of sexual peccadillos — most famously his White House hookup with then 22-year-old intern Monica Lewinksy.
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Low inflation remains the main story in Europe as well, confounding for years now the European Central Bank's myriad prescriptions to get it anywhere near its 2 percent target.
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What makes Cannon's decision to join the combat especially confounding is that his favorite musician at the time was Bob Dylan, whose lyrics inspired him to write his own.
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When the authors restricted their analysis to high-quality studies that included only lifetime abstainers and properly controlled for other confounding variables, the health benefits of moderate drinking vanished.
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They're confounding and compelling at once, occasionally veering into Mark E Smith territory if anything, all sneers and bite-backs and no time to turn back and explain themselves.
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In addition to the size and the disorder of the Pessoa archive, there is another confounding level of complexity: it is, in a sense, the work of many writers.
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Sowing disruption in Washington, while confounding the political establishment and perceptions of how a White House should be run, allows the President to keep faith with his political base.
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What's so confounding is that, after receiving this eloquent advice on the correct uses of power, Aeneas—as the second half of the poem shockingly demonstrates—doesn't take it.
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Second, there are confounding factors such as climate change, the effects of past fire exclusion, and increasing development in the wildland-urban interface, which contribute to higher wildfire spending.
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Further confounding those trying to estimate the impact, the plan hints that an additional "fourth bracket" may be needed to assure that the wealthiest earners pay their fair share.
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ECB President Mario Draghi sent financial markets into a tailspin in March when he said he did not envisage any further rate cut, confounding investors' expectations at the time.
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Swerving from predictable to confounding, dreamy to demented, artful to awkward, this genre-twisting hybrid from Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra links art house and slaughterhouse with unexpected success.
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Her one-volume history is elegant, readable, sobering; it extends a steadying hand when a breakneck news cycle lurches from one event to another, confounding minds and churning stomachs.
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They won a play-in game against Arizona State, then defeated sixth-seeded Texas Christian and third-seeded Michigan State, the zone confounding one of college basketball's best teams.
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Even after the researchers controlled for potential confounding factors — including age, sex, ethnic origin, where people lived, smoking status, diabetes, alcohol intake, and even household income — the association held.
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As a musician, too, Mr. Byrne delights in confounding what you might expect from someone whose instrument had its heyday in England when Elizabeth I was on the throne.
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Streamline Your Morning Makeup Routine Here's advice from experts on the best ways to apply your daily makeup and, along the way, clear up a few confounding makeup questions.
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But a lack of national standards and rigorous testing — plus a ballooning market — means buyers have to wade through a sea of confounding options to find something that works.
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But there have also been bizarre episodes — a woman strolling down outdoor tracks in Brooklyn last year, confounding other riders — and reports of frustrated riders escaping from stalled trains.
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The movie's title is a giveaway: Emily's sickness is big, as well as terrifying and confounding, and it lands her in an intensive care unit, hooked to life support.
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The result is that he expands his own power by confounding institutional restraints and opening a zone of presidential impunity -- while at the same time delighting his political base.
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In a mark of just how confounding these conversations can be, some of the symbolic gestures were reversed, owing to apparent indecisiveness or the passing of a publicity storm.
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Tall, striking and charismatic (that's her in the video for Jay-Z's "4:44"), Ms. Okpokwasili is the opposite of ordinary, an expectation-confounding blend of authority and vulnerability.
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Godspeed to the Curiosity rover, holding down the fort until the Mars 2020 rover arrives and the two missions can help us learn more about the confounding Red Planet.
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Friday's data showed nonfarm payrolls increased by only 38,2105 jobs last month, the fewest in more than 20.2-21.1375/21 years, confounding forecasts for a rise of 223,20.9 jobs.
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That makes forcing the nuclear option even more confounding: After all, why not hold fire until the next nomination when a conservative firebrand is more likely to be named?
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Apparently aiming for an open-ended psychological thriller, Ms. Thoman focuses so fiercely on atmosphere that her narrative isn't just opaque, it's a confounding collision of signifiers and symbols.
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And when you measure what people are eating naturally, there's always a chicken-and-egg problem, which is why many diet studies are marred by confounding factors and flaws.
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The Bay Area-artist, recently relocated to New York, has been confounding audiences with her appropriation-laden works since the 21977s that are challenging and enlightening in equal measure.
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Critics everywhere have slammed the latest Harry Potter spin-off, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, as there's an absurd amount of confounding plot crammed into the 22018-minute film.
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Business investment increased by 0.5 percent on the quarter, confounding expectations in the Reuters poll for a fall and reversing a decrease in the first three months of the year.
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The effect is a confounding message of strength in the midst of detritus and decomposition, raising questions about both the traditional and enduring male-centric representations of women in history.
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The earliest sign that markets were perking up was in January when iron ore prices started rallying, confounding analysts and traders who saw it as little more than short covering.
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Others went fully surreal, like Helena Parriott's chromatic display of materially confounding objects and Esteban Salazar's ominous yet playful glowing contraption of glass sculpture, found materials, and custom neon lights.
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"Welterweight" is the very definition of a plot-moving episode, with lots of Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart) and The Farm crises and a stream of confounding mob-related power moves.
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WHEN on October 2nd a narrow majority of Colombian voters rejected a peace agreement under which the FARC guerrillas were to disarm, it was not just a pollster-confounding shock.
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The idea is that the only difference between the two is the intervention (whether or not they ate meat) and not any of those other confounding factors, like socioeconomic status.
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Donald Trump is on the verge of a stunning victory in the 2016 election, confounding pundits and forecasters by winning states where he rarely or never led in the polls.
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It was one of the top three illusions in this year's Best Illusion of the Year contest, in which scientists compete with each other to create the most confounding illusions.
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To start, many of the studies were poorly designed: They didn't include enough participants to have meaningful results, or the researchers failed to limit bias and control for confounding factors.
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Growth in the bloc's dominant services sector slowed and its flash PMI fell to 52.5 from 52.8, confounding expectations in a Reuters poll which predicted a modest rise to 53.0.
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At its launch, it was a confounding device with clever (or, as I said in our review, "too clever") hardware saddled with software that didn't work well on a tablet.
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By that measure, the eternally confounding Aphex Twin was a perfect headliner for the fest's second year, which went down December 17 and 18 at an old post office building.
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Household spending rose 2.8 percent in August from a year earlier, confounding market expectations for a 0.1 percent fall and increasing at its fastest since August 2015, government data showed.
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The President has said his campaign never colluded with Russia, but has at times sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin over US intelligence agencies, confounding even some of his allies.
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It's a self-contained science town, the way remote observatories sometimes are: Astronomy has to be done far from humans, and high above the confounding air of the lower elevations.
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Every episode focuses on a different character wrapped up in the whole confounding mess, and subsequently, every episode turns into sort of a cover version of a great '70s filmmaker.
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The strengthening yen could see Japan's central bank eke out more stimulus as early as next month, confounding expectations for policy inaction following January's surprise move to negative interest rates.
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The market's favorite trick is to act in confounding and counterintuitive ways, but this apparent disjunction has even some seasoned investment professionals scratching their heads and interrogating their financial models.
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But in another consensus-confounding turn, value stocks have badly lagged growth shares - just as bond yields have dropped and market volatility has been muted, contrary to the popular predictions.
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When controlling for confounding factors, such as age, the risk is even higher—for men, there's a 140 percent and 30 percent higher risk for heart disease and stroke respectively.
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Oil stockpiles in the United States surged by 3.3 million barrels in the week ended June 2, the EIA said Wednesday, confounding analysts' estimates for a 3.5 million-barrel decline.
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The first movement is a commanding yet confounding Sonata-Allegro form; the final fugue, driven by a bustling theme initiated by a persistent trill, is a dizzying web of counterpoint.
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It also shows how the meanings of these three names are at best confounding and at worst unnerving, evoking big government, immateriality and darkness both individually and as a group.
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Markets had earlier taken some encouragement from the sound defeat in Austria's presidential election of a far-right candidate by a pro-European, which confounding forecasts of a tight race.
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Here in a place known for its rigidity, ruled since 19903 by a single family, a confounding mash-up of what was once held apart now defines how life works.
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The confounding variable is that we don't, at the present time, have the scientific principles to apply to help answer the underlying essence of what governs and regulates this phenomenon.
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In a similar lose-lose situation, viewers had no choice but to stare agape at Jennifer Lopez's confounding Barbie dominatrix costume, basically a shiny bra with an exaggerated bib. Overalls?
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The data follows figures last week that showed service sector activity in Brazil, which accounts for more than 70% of the economy, stagnated in May, confounding expectations for a fall.
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Jackson, meanwhile, had a one fight return to the UFC, beating on Fabio Maldonado before being bitterly brought back into Bellator in his conviction to continue his confounding contractual confusion.
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Austria's far-right presidential candidate Norbert Hofer was soundly defeated on Sunday, confounding forecasts of a tight election in which he would ride a wave of populism sweeping the West.
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Just as Cole is most realistically and revealingly seen and judged against the background of his time, so is the exhibition, coming as it does in this confounding MAGA moment.
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It was one of the worst crimes in recent Mexican history, but the government was slow to react and its eventual investigation was riddled with glaring holes and confounding contradictions.
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How much of the feeling arose from my own desire to couple up, and how much from the sense that, by not doing so, I was confounding family and friends?
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Gómez, 13, and her teammates had been confounding boys all season, playing so well that their girls' team recently won a junior regional league in Spain over 13 boys' teams.
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So let's pretend these two parts aired separately, and unpack them one at a time: This episode is wondrously confounding, even on a literal "How did they do that?" level.
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Where the Harvard crowd see quick fixes in the near future, Hof, an expert on the neuronal underpinnings of aging and Alzheimer's, sees the exposure of ever more confounding complexity.
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The team chose plasma because it is somewhat less likely than breath or urine to be corrupted by confounding factors like diet or environmental chemicals, including cleaning products or pollution.
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I never much cared about the Jussie Smollett case, even before it became the most confounding story of the year, even if what he initially claimed had been proven true.
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The preliminary purchasing managers index for the manufacturing and service sectors rose to 50.0 from 49.6 in June, Markit said, confounding a Reuters poll forecast for a slight drop to 49.2.
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Tuesday's data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed retail sales fell 0.1% in April from March, the first negative reading this year and confounding forecasts for a 0.2% gain.
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The announcement of the invitation came as the White House sought to clean up days of confounding statements on Russian interference in the 2016 election that sent Trump to the presidency.
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PIRRO: OK. So Charlie Hurt, I mean, there&aposs an article here in the Hill that I&aposm looking at and it says Trump just keeps on confounding his hapless detractors.
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In examining the possibility that breathing itself significantly increases the risk of lung cancer, the authors of the paper, Kamen P. Simeonov and Daniel S. Himmelstein, began by eliminating confounding variables.
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All of this is apparent in the first five minutes of Trackless, which serve both as a tutorial and as a way of confounding any expectations about what this world is.
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For most people, it still doesn't answer one of the most confounding questions about the TSA: Is America really any safer because some underpaid worker grabbed my balls at the airport?
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The company's VR presence has notably been lacking in the mobile department which has been somewhat confounding given the fact that they seem to understand that mobile is sorta kinda important.
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It sounds weird, but it also works, as it turns out that the confounding physics of Portal and the more serious strategy of the Bridge Constructor series are a great match.
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For fans like myself, then, who've been trained by Marvel to connect the dots, it's confounding to deal with a franchise that barely even seems like it's trying to make sense.
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Egypt's central bank kept its key interest rates unchanged at a monetary policy meeting on Thursday, confounding a unanimous forecast by analysts that it would hike borrowing costs to curb inflation.
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The doc as a whole struggles to advance the conversation about Scientology and its inner workings — especially in the wake of Going Clear — but it's an entertaining if confounding watch nonetheless.
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Donald Trump himself is also a major confounding factor, since his campaign had already this week made a number of statements to the press that were quickly found to be false.
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The industrial sector confidence index released by statistics office INSEE on Thursday rose to 623 from 101 in August, confounding expectations from economists in a Reuters poll for a flat reading.
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LONDON (Reuters) - China's new crude oil futures contract, which began trading this week, has a good chance of confounding the doubters and becoming a regional benchmark where other contracts have failed.
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An important note: experts agree on the benefits of breastfeeding babies in low-income countries, but the evidence is sparser in wealthy nations like America, where confounding factors muddy the data.
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Like many others in southern Louisiana, the hundreds who were forced to stay overnight in their cars on a stretch of Interstate 12 were surrounded by a dangerously confounding new topography.
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Industrial output fell by 1.5 percent on the month, data from the Economy Ministry showed on Wednesday, confounding the consensus forecast in a Reuters poll for an increase of 0.2 percent.
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While opening a session via the command line isn't as exciting – or initially confounding – as running PuTTY it's nice to know the world of outside servers is only three letters away.
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Then there's the additionally confounding fact that Carson was going to be approved with or without any Senate Democratic votes, since Republicans only need a simple majority for all Cabinet positions.
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The IHS Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 45.0 from 45.3 in July, confounding expectations for an improved reading of 45.9 in a Reuters poll of economists.
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And just as Cole is most realistically and revealingly seen and judged against the background of his time, so is the exhibition, coming as it does in this confounding MAGA moment.
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This weekend, Argentine officials said the wreckage of the submarine had been found, offering the first concrete answers about one of the deadliest and most confounding maritime disasters in modern times.
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It is a confounding situation, and the Knicks have declined to offer much information about him, but the team has largely managed to withstand the loss of its second-leading scorer.
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Methane, a gas that offers a tantalizing hint of possible life below the barren landscape of Mars, displays a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't quality that is confounding scientists.
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Late-night hosts did their best on Thursday to make sense of the confounding deal-making process on immigration that unfolded between the White House and Congress's Democratic leadership this week.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French industrial output edged 0.3% higher in July, confounding the expectations of some economists who forecast a summer heatwave might support a stronger rebound, official data showed on Tuesday.
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At events for Mr. Biden, some white voters cite his confounding September debate answer on the legacy of slavery and previous Senate work with segregationists as reasons to support other candidates.
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Ask The Wirecutter Is there any device in your home more confounding, ever-changing and indecipherable than the modems and routers that take the internet in and out of your home?
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What's more, throughout various economic forecasting reports provided to its investors, Exxon used confounding language to explain how they were accounting for the future costs of extracting and selling fossil fuels.
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The scientists tried to account for confounding factors, but there could still be additional variables, such as diet or genetics, or even other environmental factors such as exposure to heavy metals.
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The Cubs, in winning the 2016 Series and ending a confounding 108-year championship drought, also produced one of the more improbable sports accomplishments in Mr. Obama's eight years in office.
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At a time of mounting worries about a possible nuclear confrontation with North Korea, the delay in filling the crucial post of a US ambassador to Seoul is confounding, observers say.
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The science of smell is somewhat confounding: An organic compound called indole, for instance, which is found in jasmine and orange blossoms, is also found in coal tar and decomposing shrimp.
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Confounding all of the progress in the liberalization of marijuana laws is that the drug is still, somehow, illegal under federal law, where it's currently classified as a schedule one substance.
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It preserves the confounding spirit of the original, with jittery percussion parts intersecting and unwinding in a way that feels head-spinning, like a panic attack in a tangle of vines.
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But whether or not everything in it qualifies as incontrovertibly beautiful, it offers an exciting opportunity to meditate on the perennially confounding questions, what is beauty and what is it good for?
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You can see where a sudden exposition dump so near the end of the series would have been confounding, turning off viewers like myself who were always more into the characters' journeys.
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The Nikkei Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index INPMI=ECI, compiled by IHS Markit, rose to 133 last month from October's 53.1, confounding median expectations in a Reuters poll for a fall to 52.6.
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Cruise missiles are harder to counter than ballistic missiles since they fly at lower altitudes and can evade enemy radar, confounding missile defence missiles and hitting targets deep inside an opponent's territory.
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Confounding some predictions, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), dogged by infighting, has so far failed to capitalize on the lack of a proper government despite being the third-biggest party.
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Confounding illness Shipyard and construction workers have sought treatment for lung ailments through the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics, a network of some 60 clinics specializing in laborer illnesses and injuries.
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Even if the two summits pass off without controversy—as they might, given how Mr Trump delights in confounding his critics—the differing priorities, divergent beliefs and clashing political cultures will remain.
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Using the new system, the mice could be connected or disconnected at the scientists' discretion, removing the influence of shared organs or any other confounding effects of having two bodies joined together.
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But they turned out for Obama in 210, and — confounding the expectations of some Republicans, who thought 2008 was a fluke — in 2012, when Obama was neither as new nor as popular.
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Retail sales volumes fell 0.3 percent in January, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday, confounding all 24 forecasters in a Reuters poll who had expected a rebound from December's slump.
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Contracts for goods 'Made in Germany' were down by 2.6 percent, data from the Economy Ministry showed, marking their steepest fall since June 2018 and confounding forecasts for a 0.5 percent increase.
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The IHS Markit/CIPS UK Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to 55.1 from 52.1 in February, confounding all forecasts in a Reuters poll that had pointed to a reading of 51.0.
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"For me, declaring code is not code," he said, offering a philosophical view of software that may be common among Google engineers but stands a good chance of confounding nearly everyone else.
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But whether or not everything in it qualifies as incontrovertibly beautiful, it offers an exciting opportunity to meditate on two perennially confounding questions: What is beauty: And what is it good for?
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Caught in the deep traditions of a rigid society, Nidal's identity challenges ingrained notions of gender, confounding his peers and teachers as they strive to uncover the source for this sudden shift.
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In just the past four months, incidents in Orlando, Dallas, Minnesota, New York and New Jersey have brought into sharp focus the complex, diverse, and confounding nature of the "lone wolf" threat.
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The billionaire businessman has transformed the political landscape in the year since he launched his presidential campaign, confounding expectations and delivering an astonishing defeat to the Republican establishment forces arrayed against him.
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It is all rather confounding — unless Mr. Trump is simply eyeing postelection business interests — for congressional Republicans, who evince little doubt that Moscow was behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee.
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The explanation, as confounding as it may be for those who favor tougher gun restrictions, has its roots in a civic value that crosses the political divide: the right to due process.
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But whether or not everything in it qualifies as incontrovertibly beautiful, it offers an exciting opportunity to meditate on two perennially confounding questions, what is beauty and what is it good for?
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It's a start, and yet it's confounding that more than 100 million people had to come down with the infections, some of them dying, for a public awareness campaign to take hold.
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Also, the researchers only used pictures of labiaplasty patients, so it's possible their images aren't representative of people who don't seek the procedures, though the researchers didn't mention this potential confounding factor.
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You're probably referring to Form W-4, "a particularly confounding, boring form that everyone has to fill out and no one understands," said Russell Garofalo, founder of the tax firm Brass Taxes.
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It's worth noting that there are several possible confounding variables, including the fact that some of the hardest-hit earlier states were blue-leaning coastal ones like Washington, California, and New York.
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In the meantime, the U.S.-backed forces in Syria, including Kurds, are keeping up the fight - confounding analysts' predictions that they would rapidly head north to prepare for an offensive by Turkey.
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LONDON — Facebook, confounding expectations, said on Wednesday that the company had found no evidence of a significant Russian effort to interfere in the British referendum last year on leaving the European Union.
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This week, Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park releases his first music since Chester Bennington's death, Common teams up with Robert Glasper and Karriem Riggins, and James Blake unleashes a delightfully confounding track.
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Perhaps they're confused by our confounding student loan system and miss a few payments early on, or they miss other bills here and there before someone explains that every late payment matters.
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But here's my grander working theory: Those creepy sensations arise when fingertips, in sync with other finely tuned sensory systems, experience nanoscopically confounding surfaces like cardboard or paper towels as mentally unassimilable.
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Cruise missiles are harder to counter than ballistic missiles since they fly at lower altitudes and can evade enemy radar, confounding missile defense missiles and hitting targets deep inside an opponent's territory.
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It was confounding that the Performa team behind "Heaven on Fourth" be so clueless of public conversations around this work, while investing international resources into fictional art productions divorced from lived reality.
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Building approvals fell 1.1% in August, less than a sharp 10% slide in July but confounding market expectations for a bounce of 2.5%, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed.
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For Mr. Shaub, who has spent the better part of 15 years in the ethics office — mostly as a career civil servant — the experience has been as confounding as it is exhausting.
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Onboard, he spoke with tourists from India, Austria and the separatist Spanish region of Catalonia, questioning some about their rights to work in or visit Australia, and confounding others with his mission.
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That's what makes the rise of right-wing terrorism in Germany so confounding: It appears to be at odds with the country's collective memory of World War II and the Nazi regime.
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Goldstein said he was conservative with Sunday projections due to the confounding factors of the film's R-rating, the popularity of late night showings, the beginning of football season and Hurricane Irma.
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They plant the seed in an otherwise confounding flashback opener, in which Jimmy breaks into the ruins of his parents' corner store with his old con-artist wingman, Marco Pasternak (Mel Rodriguez).
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It&aposs even more confounding than it sounds, and Democratic candidates must master a confusing morass of calendar conflicts and loyalties if they want to run against President Donald Trump in November.
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It's a richer experience now -- augmenting the show's exploration of racism, which has developed in unexpected ways -- even if the path to it was at times confounding to the point of opaque.
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Instead, he chose to live about as far below the radar as he could in what became one of the most confounding stories about any fan, of any sport, in this country.
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Even after follow-ups with a local therapist, even after they move to the blank canvas of a new home with white walls and skylights, Roes continues to behave in confounding ways.
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Ever since joining the Trump administration, first as the CIA director, then secretary of State, Pompeo has tried to shield Trump from criticism or explain away some of his more confounding actions.
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Japan's core machinery orders, regarded as an indicator of capital spending in the coming six to nine months, rose 3.8% in March, data showed on Wednesday, confounding expectations for a 0.7 percent decline.
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After well over three months of wondering how the Bachelor managed such a confounding athletic feat — and what emotional blow inspired it in the first place — the ABC reality show finally explained all.
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But while this research marks another breakthrough in our understanding of the universe's fundamental mechanics, it would be naive to assume that the Higgs boson is done confounding us with its general weirdness.
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For some, the whole thing seemed as though it must be an elaborate joke: Here was an artist who had abandoned the proven successes of his career for a more abstract, confounding style.
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The central bank raised its key interest rates by 200 basis points on Sunday, citing stronger economic growth and falling unemployment, confounding the expectations of economists who forecast rates were unlikely to change.
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His defeat won't alter the new administration's plans, but for Democrats, it's something to smile at -- and a reminder that, in this often confounding country, nothing is ever as simple as it seems.
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People say that they're longtime Trek fans, but then to be upset at the diversity, when that is the very foundation and soul and essence of Star Trek, [that] was confounding to me.
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The film's story — about a young aspiring writer whose life is upended by a woman he knows and a man he doesn't — defies expectation, so perhaps voters found it too confounding to nominate?
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Earlier this month, the central bank pledged to increase purchases of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) but kept interest rates steady at the close of its two-day meeting, confounding expectations for hefty stimulus.
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"You have a very small sample size (only a handful of policies) and lots of potential confounding variables that make it difficult to cleanly estimate the effect," Jenkins emailed after reviewing the report.
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Kendrick Lamar continues to succeed at pulling off confounding career moves none of his peers could or should, and for that, it's time to call him what he is: the Best Rapper Alive.
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And 26-year yields in Germany, France and Italy are set for their first January fall since 23, confounding predictions of a bond selloff as soon as the biggest debt buyer stepped away.
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After years of TV that operated within relatively rigid and narrow creative parameters, there's a certain thrill in seeing writers flex their storytelling muscles, even when the results can be a tad confounding.
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The book's most glaring flaw is its unwillingness to make a study of the sideshow's spectators, consumers for whom racial drag, along with other category-confounding paradoxes, were essential components of circus fun.
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With industrial production for March contracting by 0.3 percent and confounding expectations for an increase, Barclays economists said the strong first quarter reading was likely to be revised down by 0.1 percentage point.
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The preliminary purchasing managers index for the manufacturing and service sectors rose to 50.0 from 49.6 in June, data compiler Markit said, confounding a Reuters poll forecast for a slight drop to 49.2.
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Kanye West is one of the most successful people in the world of music -- has been for a long time -- which makes it especially confounding he confessed to being $53 million in debt.
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Unlike a new experiment specifically designed to test the question of what's going on with men's swimmers, it's possible these older studies have important confounding factors, or unmeasured variables, that influenced the results.
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Yet those dismissing Mr Trump as a simple hypocrite may be passing up a chance to learn something about a country that is heading into the next election in such a confounding state.
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The giant study tried to control for all kinds of health factors: The authors accounted for people's weights and heights, exercise and eating patterns, education, family cancer history, and other potentially confounding factors.
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Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 236,000 for the week ended May 6, the Labor Department said on Thursday, confounding economists' expectations for a rise to 245,2.13.
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Primark, which accounts for about half of AB Foods' revenue and profit, delivered robust profit growth, up 15 percent at actual exchange rates and confounding a broader slowdown on the British high street.
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Benchmark aluminium prices on the London Metal Exchange (LME) have gained 11 percent this year, confounding some analysts who had expected the market to be hit by overproduction and high levels of inventories.
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New Orleans SaintsOne thing to know: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are the proud owners of possibly the most confounding stat in the NFL, ranking 1st in rushing defense but 32nd in passing defense.
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Possibly, then, the drugs may be a potential 'confounding' variable, they wrote, meaning that medication may influence test results and symptoms, adding an element of confusion to the study and its possible interpretation.
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Indiana Pacers One of the most confounding dilemmas in the NBA can be found in Indiana, where Paul George does not want to play the position that most benefits him and his team.
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Confounding is a classic problem of selection bias, so perhaps the best way to be sure that the two groups aren't different is to remove selection from their hands by randomly assigning participation.
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Because these geographic characteristics are correlated with trade, but arguably uncorrelated with other determinants of prosperity, they can be used to separate the impact of trade on national income from other confounding factors.
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PARIS, Sept 10 (Reuters) - French industrial output edged 0.3% higher in July, confounding the expectations of some economists who forecast a summer heatwave might support a stronger rebound, official data showed on Tuesday.
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The viral and legally confounding photos were taken in 2008, when Slater visited Indonesia to photograph crested macaques, and a six-year-old named Naruto took his camera, snapping a series of selfies.
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That's not only because of its scale, which is better suited to an outdoor site, but because the camera can't really deal with the work's elongated, rhomboid volumes with their optically confounding angles.
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From a hunt in Namibia to a safari lodge in South Africa, from an animal control program in Zimbabwe to a Las Vegas convention hall, the narrative becomes only more complex and confounding.
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Japan's economic growth in the second quarter was much slower than seen in a stellar preliminary reading, government data showed on Friday, confounding hopes for a long awaited pick-up in domestic demand.
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With virtually no dialogue and precious little recognizable narrative, this surreal take on the Virgin Mary's pilgrimage (with the American Southwest standing in for the Holy Land) is intermittently lovely and consistently confounding.
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FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank does not need to take immediate action in response to the coronavirus epidemic, two ECB policymakers said on Friday, confounding market bets on a rate cut.
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FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank does not need to take immediate action in response to the coronavirus epidemic, two ECB policymakers said on Friday, confounding market bets on a rate cut.
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However, building approvals fell 1.1% in August, less than a sharp 10% slide in July but confounding market expectations for a bounce of 2.5%, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed.
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"It's confounding, it's hard to explain, this blanket attack on regulations," said Jason Hartke, president of the Alliance to Save Energy, a bipartisan nonprofit organization that represents businesses, environmental groups and consumer advocates.
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The hold-up is confounding, say observers, and potentially damaging to US security interests at a time when understanding nuances on the Korean Peninsula -- home to more than 28,000 US troops -- is critical.
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On Golf NAUCALPAN DE JUÁREZ, Mexico — In the sports family, golf is the eccentric uncle whose fervent adherence to arcane rules and mannerisms is as confounding as it is central to its charm.
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That recovery has also informed her professional mission — to spread a gospel of dietary and lifestyle changes that may help women dealing with complex and confounding hormonal issues, usually related to their periods.
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The frenetic, confounding Brazilian film Bacurau, from directors Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho, was one of many films about inequality and revolt in this year's competition, where it won the Jury Prize.
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Beyond that rather confounding case restriction, one likely governed by Apple's more maddening revenue-making strategies, the two Series 3 devices are largely identical, save the ability to work with or without a phone.
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What they're saying: "The market keeps doubting the sustainability of the health of the consumer — and the consumer keeps confounding the market," Kevin St. Pierre, who covers the banks at KSP research, tells Axios.
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That provided further evidence that rising American output is confounding efforts by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Russia and 10 other exporters to reduce global oil inventories by curbing their own output.
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The income boost was driven by trade-linked commercial banking and retail lending, both of which delivered a tenth more revenue than in the same period of last year, confounding worries about China-U.
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The Shallows, starring Blake Lively, was a confounding film in many ways, but kept the bloody violence at bay for chunks of the movie so we could ruminate on the progression of Lively's tan.
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Production for 2016 was 808.4 million tonnes, up 1.2 percent on the prior year, confounding expectations at the start of last year that output would decline as the industry was forced to rationalise capacity.
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The confounding truth is that, despite trying my hardest, I was never really able to fit into the short-sighted vision of what these stereotypes looked like, and the casting department knew it, too.
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But the news is certainly important; you might say it closes the first chapter of the Higgs boson's story, and offers a potential window to explore some of most confounding questions in the Universe.
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Having previewed six episodes, suffice it to say that Lindelof and his collaborators are playing a long game and then some as they peel back layers, in a manner that's simultaneously intriguing and confounding.
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Lloyds Banking Group on Wednesday reported third-quarter profits largely unchanged from a year ago, confounding initial expectations of a sharp squeeze on earnings caused by Britain's surprise vote to quit the European Union.
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Mathevon didn't have humans interact directly with the dogs, as that would have introduced too many confounding variables (such as physical gestures, variations in the way people look and smell, differences in affection, etc.).
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Industrial production fell by 0.1 percent, the Economy Ministry said, its second consecutive fall after a dip of 0.5 percent in December and confounding expectations in a Reuters poll for a 0.5 percent rise.
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But a tragic twist yielded a confounding mystery: Three days later, on May 14, 2011, Amy, 42, who struggled with depression, was found dead by her own hand in a Rockford, Illinois, motel room.
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IO62-CNI=SI have rallied almost 50 percent since the beginning of 211, confounding analysts, myself included, who had predicted that any rally was merely an opportunity to take profits and go short again.
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One such person was Warren Breidenbach, the surgeon who led the team that performed the very first hand transplant in the US and is one of the field's most accomplished, complicated, and confounding figures.
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Big Data's narrative sells the idea that those owning the data control the market, and it is playing out in a tragedy of the commons, confounding the use of information for society and science.
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Finally, since this was a monozygotic (that is, identical) twin study, the authors analyzed whether genes were responsible for the link, or whether the childhood setting shared by twins introduced a confounding environmental factor.
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In the four years since she released her debut LP and moved to Brooklyn, Mackenzie Scott has turned from a raw singer-songwriter into a confounding art rock force, embracing a God-tinged mysticism.
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For the euro zone as a whole the flash, or preliminary, composite survey rose sharply to 56.0, the highest since April 2011, from 54.4 in January, confounding expectations for a slight dip to 54.3.
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But as this week's Supreme Court hearing in an immigration showdown makes clear, the increasing dysfunction of Congress has provoked testy turf battles and confounding questions about the nature and limits of presidential power.
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Separate data from the Federal Statistics Office showed retail sales - a volatile indicator often subject to revision - rose by 0.9 percent on the month in February, confounding expectations for a drop of 0.9 percent.
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Assisting Henry — or, rather, you, depending on how convincing you find the movie's central effect/conceit — is a confounding mad scientist named Jimmy (Sharlto Copley), who's both a master of disguise and seemingly unkillable.
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The trick is to carefully time and target the drip bombs in a way that is easy for the public to understand and follow without engulfing the landing zone in clouds of confounding smoke.
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There is something perverse about a notion of diversity that would require us to treat Asian-American excellence as a confounding variable to be (partially) corrected for, rather than a legacy to be celebrated.
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Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri returned home late Tuesday night following a confounding few weeks that began with his shock resignation from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where many Lebanese officials believe Hariri was "held hostage".
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It's challenging to feel invested in what happens to the Underwoods' marriage at this point, and it's even more confounding to determine how, exactly, Claire had time to orchestrate such an elaborate campaign strategy.
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With two-thirds of the votes counted the Australian Broadcasting Corporation forecast that One Nation would win one seat, confounding expectations that it could gain enough to influence legislation in the new state parliament.
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While the spike is interesting, the really confounding thing is that the total excess in the 1 to 7 MeV range found across the three experiments is lower than expected by around 6 percent.
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His immense success was especially at the forefront of my mind when I was with him at the Guggenheim, a space that celebrated his life's work with All, a massive, costly, and confounding retrospective.
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Maybe the most confounding appearance in the last 28503 years came at not Gridiron but the Alfalfa Club, a drinking club so named because alfalfa roots will travel miles underground to find a drink.
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Trump's announcement from the Oval Office has sown confusion and anger, further straining the trans-Atlantic alliance with Europe, confounding diplomats, surprising some State Department officials and roiling financial markets which plummeted again Thursday.
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The Sanders campaign has exposed a class divide within the Democratic Party: His promises of a leg up are most alluring to those who need it, and most confounding to those who do not.
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