conflate
Example Sentences
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It’s easy to conflate this with laziness or thoughtlessness.
From MarketWatch
When shark sightings, encounters and bites all get conflated under the catchall umbrella of an "attack", the danger seems greater than it is.
From BBC
Legal authority and moral or civic wisdom aren’t the same thing, and conflating the two only deepens division and erodes trust.
He said Maccabi fans had just pulled down one flag the night before the Amsterdam game and that some of West Midlands Police's evidence "conflated" different things.
From BBC
It said the researchers relied on an outdated and narrow data set to reach unwarranted conclusions, and conflated correlation with causation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
