conflate

Example Sentences

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It’s easy to conflate this with laziness or thoughtlessness.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 30, 2026

It does us no favors to conflate the important gains in racial progress among Gen Z with the real evidence of the impact of the manosphere and red-pill communities.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2026

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 • Nov. 11, 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

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