conflation
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“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
His professional unease is echoed by the novel’s gently surreal bending of time and space and its metaphorical conflation of life and film.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025
It is unclear why the original conflation came about, but to state the obvious, it is possible to support Palestine without supporting Hamas.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2024
The “action” may be a conflation of two different episodes involving the Trumbull, neither of them early in the war: the first was in June 1780, the second in late August 1781.
From Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father by I. (Isaac) Mitchell
