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Nevertheless, the Biowarfare criminals who masquerade as “experts†pretend to be “confused†but continue to spread the Big Lie which is repeated in every news story: “While H5N1 Bird Flu does not readily infect humans or spread from person to person, scientists are worried (!) that it could acquire that ability setting off a worldwide human pandemic. †New York Times, “Recent Spread of Bird Flu Confounds Experts, †March 6, 2006.
Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer 2006
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NL Playoff Slate Confounds This year's playoff field confounded the 177 readers, nine guests and two Fixers who entered our seasonlong baseball contest.
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Confounds, who from my hand hath, wrench'd the bow,
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834
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German Leader Seizes Initiative and Confounds Her Critics Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and members of the lower house of Parliament on Wednesday during a critical vote that enabled a subsequent deal to prop up the ailing euro.
NYT > Home Page By NICHOLAS KULISH 2011
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Telemarketer Abuse Statute Confounds Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan summed up the court's view of the law as being odd and said, "Where do we go from there?"
NYT > Home Page By ADAM LIPTAK 2011
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German Leader Seizes Initiative and Confounds Her Critics Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and members of the lower house of Parliament on Wednesday during a critical vote that enabled a subsequent deal to prop up the ailing euro.
NYT > Global Home By NICHOLAS KULISH 2011
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German Leader Seizes Initiative and Confounds Her Critics Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and members of the lower house of Parliament on Wednesday during a critical vote that enabled a subsequent deal to prop up the ailing euro.
NYT > Home Page By NICHOLAS KULISH 2011
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Confounds with one wide sweep the astonish'd foes,
The Columbiad Joel Barlow 1783
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Confounds rule and law, reconciles contradiction --
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Confounds rule and law, reconciles contradiction --
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