conflation

Example Sentences

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To untangle the destructive conflation of church and state, evangelicals — the most partisan religious incarnation of White conservatives — must rethink their approach and their objectives.

From Washington Post

The conflation between the “traffic filters” and the 15-minute city has been a gift to conspiracy theorists.

From Slate

This is a normal part of aging, not the conflation of déjà vu with reality that people with dementia may experience.

From Scientific American

For this reason, I joined more than 350 scholars of antisemitism, Jewish history, the Holocaust and First Amendment rights in signing the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism to address IHRA’s problematic conflation of criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

From Seattle Times

Such a conflation of emotions goes back centuries, at least to Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus,” a preposterous horror-comedy of the Elizabethan era that makes “M3gan” look prim and tasteful.

From New York Times