conflate

Example Sentences

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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

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

I get very unhappy when people conflate criminality with disorder or uncleanliness, or with people who are suffering from addictions or mental illness, or who are unhoused.

From Slate • Aug. 15, 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