conflate
Example Sentences
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He said Maccabi fans had just pulled down one flag the night before the Amsterdam game and that some of West Midlands Police's evidence "conflated" different things.
From BBC
It said the researchers relied on an outdated and narrow data set to reach unwarranted conclusions, and conflated correlation with causation.
Some of the evidence "conflated" different things in regard to a fixture against Ajax in Amsterdam, he said, giving one example of running street battles that did not occur on a match day.
From BBC
The backlash, though, often conflates flawed implementation with a flawed idea.
I think that’s one of the reasons why no one’s really wanted to touch this issue for this age group because they conflate it with the Middle East.
From Los Angeles Times
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