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- noun Plural form of
confusion .
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Examples
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He never has been a good speaker with a prepared text (last night, his speech was characteristically wooden, with several word confusions).
Guy T. Saperstein: The Presiential Election is Not Going to Be Close 2008
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Carefully check each report for common errors such as misspellings, name confusions, and incorrect information.
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Carefully check each report for common errors such as misspellings, name confusions, and incorrect information.
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The media has been slow to cover McCain's foreign policy "confusions", but they will, eventually.
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Readers are vulnerable to the same confusions, meaning that a little too much of Zero History is devoted to expository dialogue about the capabilities of particular devices or the connections between separate elements of its twisting plot.
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The media has been slow to cover McCain's foreign policy "confusions", but they will, eventually.
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Those are just the kind of confusions we see in Matisse.
MoMA show is the Matisse we don't know -- blacks, whites and the grays in between 2010
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The media has been slow to cover McCain's foreign policy "confusions", but they will, eventually.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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The media has been slow to cover McCain's foreign policy "confusions", but they will, eventually.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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People differ, but personally I don’t consider misspellings or most word confusions to be indicative of poor grammar, but rather of failed lexical access.
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