conflation
Example Sentences
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What felt absurd in 2013 looks uncannily familiar now: the obsession with purity, the conflation of wellness with luxury, the belief that food is never just food but a lifestyle choice, a status symbol, a moral performance.
From Salon
His professional unease is echoed by the novel’s gently surreal bending of time and space and its metaphorical conflation of life and film.
From Los Angeles Times
Could there be a more emphatic conflation of symbolic maleness and brute force?
From Los Angeles Times
On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Aviation Administration, the FBI, and the Department of Defense issued a joint statement stating that the seeming rush of drones was a conflation of disparate events and misidentifications.
From Salon
In Chani’s view, this misleading conflation of Saturn and disruption has become mainstream because millennials and Gen Z drive the conversation on the internet.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
