conflate
Example Sentences
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It’s easy to conflate this with laziness or thoughtlessness.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 30, 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
When you look at ICE and DHS in general, a lot of people tend to conflate them into one big blob of immigration enforcement.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 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
Vocabulary lists containing conflate
Power Prefix: con-
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Four Power Prefixes: anti-, con-, inter-, and uni-.
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