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Example sentences for: confusion
How can you use “confusion” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Then we are told that heinie is “spelled as if it were Yiddish,” which shows how much Thorne knows about German spelling and pronunciation; the variant hinie is not shown (the word is, after all, a diminutive of behind: the heinie spelling probably cropped up during WWI in confusion with the similarly pronounced Heinie , a synonym for Bosch or Kraut , short for Hein-rich ). At Hicksville it might have been fun to mention that it is a placename in New York (Nassau County) and in several other states.
Confusion between technical duplicates and biological replicates can sometimes lead to misconceptions in conducting and interpreting statistical tests.
In a Miami Herald column I admitted my confusion about Halley and Uranus and added that I was guilty of even greater ignorance.
While I agree with Cragg that “the word is extraordinarily derogatory” and can understand Powers' confusion with Henn's explanation, I still believe Henn has the best explanation for the origin of the word.
He believes language is a weapon of confusion.)