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

Could there be a more emphatic conflation of symbolic maleness and brute force?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025

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

From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2023

The assumption of course is that the Syrian reading is a conflation of those of the other two classes, so forming a full but not overburdened clause.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose