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conflation

[kuhn-flay-shuhn] / kənˈfleɪ ʃən /


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Yet Edward soon recoiled from this facile conflation, transferring a year later, in 1900, to the New York School of Art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“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

The story before us is a conflation of the two types of incident, blindness and paralysis being accumulated on the robbers.

From The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints by R.A. Stewart MacAlister


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