conflate
Example Sentences
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It’s easy to conflate this with laziness or thoughtlessness.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 30, 2026
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
He said the media and advocates often conflate “solitary confinement” with what he termed restrictive housing, where people are sometimes put under mental health observation, for medical reasons or during investigations.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2025
I get very unhappy when people conflate criminality with disorder or uncleanliness, or with people who are suffering from addictions or mental illness, or who are unhoused.
From Slate • Aug. 15, 2025
It has become awkwardly combined with VI into a conflate narrative, as is shown by the silence about the fox in LA.
From The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints by MacAlister, R.A. Stewart
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
