conflation

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“Wuthering Heights” knew what it was about, and Brontë, despite her lack of firsthand experience in love, had the scripts of normative femininity dead to rights with the book’s relentless conflation of love and torment.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026

A dreamy conflation of 1970s soft rock and 80s new wave hooks, it was heralded by the smash hit As It Was, and was showered with awards.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

We all should — and must — loudly reject antisemitism, Islamophobia and conflation of people and governments.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2023

The confusion here, I think, stems from the earlier medieval conflation of sorcery with heresy.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2023

It is impossible to “conflate” in places where Bא and their associates furnish no materials for the supposed conflation.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William