confounder
confounding factor

And our confounder will keep him from picking us up again.

That was the confounder, and according to Scanner, it did not need to be particularly good.

He waited another fifteen minutes and then switched on the confounder.

He reached for the confounder, picked it up, and looked at it.

When Khadaji tried the confounder the fourth time, no alarm answered.

There might be a confounder that was responsible for the correlation between smoking and lung cancer.

Did he have some kind of electronic confounder, something new that could rascal the comp?

Overmatching, matching for an apparent confounder that actually is a result of the exposure.

He took an electronic confounder from his pack.

This sneaky, hidden third wheel is called a confounder.

Khadaji used the line to lower the confounder until it was hidden among the trash boxes below.

A confounder nestled against his belt shrouded him from electronic eyes and ears.

He left the exercise room, flicked the confounder off so the cameras would clear and show the room was still empty.

The circuit-rider said, "I've got the confounder specs and the basic hardwiring is done.

Bork triggered the confounder, rendering the vehicle invisible to Doppler and radar.

Mayli carried a tiny confounder which had been custom-designed to disable the detector.

None of these was a confounder or mediator of the relation between grade and sickness absence.

He checked the skinmask in the mirror, took his confounder from the box and snapped it into place on his belt.

Khadaji killed his transmitter and the confounder.

The confounder detectors would be useless.

When he arrived, he activated the confounder.

I've got a confounder blasting their radar and doppler, but I don't think we want to put down within a hundred klicks of the prison.

I would have thought that my confounder would have prevented that."

He reached into the downed Massey's trousers, removed the confounder the man carried, and trigged it.

Clinician's racial bias is another potential confounder.