conflate
Example Sentences
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A year later, the alternative rock band Eve’s Plum, fronted by Colleen Fitzpatrick, conflated wearing lipstick with female voicelessness.
From Salon
“Misinformation was circulating that conflated these parking lot safety measures with immigration enforcement. That is false,” she wrote in an email.
From Los Angeles Times
You see this sort of language used when people conflate various definitions of globalism.
It’s easy to conflate this with laziness or thoughtlessness.
From MarketWatch
When shark sightings, encounters and bites all get conflated under the catchall umbrella of an "attack", the danger seems greater than it is.
From BBC
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