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I wonder if coming out a different one than you went in confounds things.

exiting mx w/ car (permit) 2002

But then some songs such as Louie Louie, which is in English, confounds most native English speakers as well.

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But then some songs such as Louie Louie, which is in English, confounds most native English speakers as well.

Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

Nonetheless, the idea confounds common wisdom both of the right, which assigns Iran a prominent place in the world's "axis of evil", and the left, which believes that the U.S. and Israel are already planning to attack, if not actually invade, Iran.

U.S.-Israel-Iran Alliance: The Great Game Updated 2006

The fact that German mobilization was ordered three days in advance of the meeting of the Reichstag confounds all American ideas and practices about the rights of the people and the proper limits of Executive authority.

The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe Various

The name alone confounds, leaping out from a 1950s-looking billboard along a quiet stretch of road in St. Martin.

NYT > Home Page 2011

He cannot be unjust, ungenerous to Clementina -- Nor yet selfish -- This word confounds me, from a man that says nothing at random!

The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) Samuel Richardson 1725

But, whilst they were thus in mirth and joyance and good cheer, such as confounds the wit and the sight and defies description, the Vizier awoke and missing his brother, arose in affright and found the door open.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

So it is an excellent question, it is an answer that kind of confounds us, because we do not want to jump out there and do something and be worse off.

SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

ANC: World Bank loan 'confounds' critics like Zille

WN.com - Business News 2010