conflate
Example Sentences
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Some of the evidence "conflated" different things in regard to a fixture against Ajax in Amsterdam, he said, giving one example of running street battles that did not occur on a match day.
From BBC
The backlash, though, often conflates flawed implementation with a flawed idea.
Although the two men have had a long correspondence, Mr. Kahlenberg said they are more strange bedfellows than ideological soul mates, and that his views have been unfairly conflated with Mr. Blum’s.
From New York Times
Why conflate early Renaissance aristocrats with early 20th century bootleggers?
From Los Angeles Times
And so the counterculture and the left who are talking about sexual liberation and are talking about the problems with capitalism and the problems with the West get conflated with the sexual revolution.
From Salon
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