This has confounded the war between belief and unbelief. Strabo wrote that they were so intermingled that they were often confounded with each other. The ancients very often confounded the names of these two stones. Before the discovery of isotopes, empirically determined noninteger values of atomic mass confounded scientists. Indifferentism is not to be confounded with religious indifference. I am, I confess, totally confounded by it. Consequently, there are a large number of published studies on birth order that are confounded. The hypothesis was confounded by the fundamental attribution error. The result confounded his international critics and the IMF. Consequently, slit width and height are effectively confounded in a complicated fashion. However, it may still have confounded enemy submarines. These two sources of influence are often confounded in observational research of individuals or families. This evidence can be confounded, however, by other factors recorded by isotope ratios. He confounded doctors who expected he would never walk again. However, their languages were confounded and they went to separate parts of the earth.