conflate

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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

And he was expressing his compromise, acknowledging that a civil servant cannot conflate his personal values and behaviors with public policy.

From Salon • May 23, 2025

Such a conflate use of Anu-Enlil would present a striking parallel to the Hebrew combination Yahweh-Elohim, though of course in the case of the former pair the subsequent stage of identification was never attained.

From Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition by King, L. W. (Leonard William)