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"confused success" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when something has achieved success, but it is not immediately clear or obvious what that success is. For example, "The results of the project were a confused success, with some participants reporting improved quality of life and others reporting no difference."
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I started to question my ability to write because I confronted myself to what others did, I confused success (and the numbers of followers a blog had) with talent.
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Plus: weird conspiracy theories and the confusing success of Mrs Brown's Boys.
I never get hard work confused with success.
Despite getting work for magazines like Spin and Dazed & Confused, his success was middling.
It stands out amid a college basketball landscape where bigger and newer and brasher are confused with success.
But it shouldn't be confused with success for everyone else.
One has to be careful, though, not to confuse technical success with progress, says Geoffrey Duyk, a former head of research at Exelixis who is now a venture capitalist.
"I hope," wrote Jim Nicholson, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, to Mr Smith, "you don't confuse the success of our shared message with your failure as its messenger".
Lawmakers in Washington, DC, are generally swayed by domestic rather than international concerns.Some recent talk about London has smacked of hubris, confusing its success as a financial centre with the favourable cyclical conditions that investors and traders have been enjoying.
Also, let's not confuse financial success with social value.
Despite Ismail's warnings, Wreden still felt isolated and confused after his success.
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