conflate
Example Sentences
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From a human-resources perspective, it makes little sense to effectively conflate vacation days with work-from-home days, and it also seems to run counter to promoting goodwill.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 28, 2025
It used cleverly parsed terms—“premium payments” rather than “premiums”—to conflate total premiums with enrollees’ out-of-pocket payments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025
He said the media and advocates often conflate “solitary confinement” with what he termed restrictive housing, where people are sometimes put under mental health observation, for medical reasons or during investigations.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2025
When you look at ICE and DHS in general, a lot of people tend to conflate them into one big blob of immigration enforcement.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025
Such a conflate use of Anu-Enlil would present a striking parallel to the Hebrew combination Yahweh-Elohim, though of course in the case of the former pair the subsequent stage of identification was never attained.
From Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition by King, L. W. (Leonard William)
Vocabulary lists containing conflate
Power Prefix: con-
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Four Power Prefixes: anti-, con-, inter-, and uni-.
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