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"confound by" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is primarily used to express confusion or bewilderment in response to something. Example sentence: "His response to her question confounded her by its inscrutability."
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The rules they play with are expectations, which they confound by subversion.
Therefore, we explored a possible gender confound by repeating all analyses while additionally covarying for gender, and an identical pattern of results emerged.
In other words, the activity of a neuron representing a particular motion only depends on the movement itself and is not confound by possibly varying local luminance under changing scene illumination.
However, in the present study, we can overcome this potential confound by showing that perirhinal activation was not correlated with correct or incorrect trials.
However, we minimized this possible confound by selecting ROIs at about 6° of eccentricity, that corresponds at about the center of the activation, so distant from the edges of the stimulus and the screen display.
Since we were interested into BOLD modulations related to high-level processing of different SF ranges, we avoided this potential confound by attributing the same global luminance and RMS contrast to LSF, MSF, and HSF images (intact or scrambled).
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Vatican thrift, however, is sometimes confounded by staff laxity.
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