conflate
Example Sentences
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It’s easy to conflate this with laziness or thoughtlessness.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 30, 2026
And while Sweeney has certainly faced her own share of critics throughout her relatively young career, director David Michôd’s film is eager to conflate these two stories.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 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
For their part, police publicly conflate all hacking crimes with robbing payphones with crowbars.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
