Critics have been confounded by the flame.
Millions of viewers may have been confounded by the result.
Effects of Language were not analysed as they would have been confounded by the use of different MEG instruments for each language.
But each generation has also been confounded by the unpredictability with which aggressions sometimes explode, in a fury no one sees coming.
Thurgood Marshall's assault on the edifice of segregation had been confounded by the question of whether the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited racial segregation.
But that is where the learning curve ended, and experts have been confounded by the younger Mr. Kim's low profile in the ensuing months.
Veterans of the long push to expand and commercialize machine intelligence say that efforts to market it have often been confounded by the tendency of experts continually to raise the threshold of what they consider true artificial intelligence.
Corbyn's supporters will argue that his critics in the parliamentary Labour party, who said he would never appeal beyond a narrow band of Stop the War Coalition activists and hard-left groups, have been confounded by the result.
Volumes of Shakespeare's works were set on the tables alongside bar slips for ordering more drinks, though anyone wishing to follow along in the text would have been confounded by the high proportion of spontaneously improvised interpolation.
Mr Johnson, a Games evangelist, has insisted the Olympo-sceptics who had been confounded by the success of London 2012 will be proved just as wrong about the legacy of the park.
The government has been confounded by the protests, and analysts say there are fears that workers might connect their woes with the country's virtual one-party rule and organize into a political force.
