conflate
Example Sentences
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From a human-resources perspective, it makes little sense to effectively conflate vacation days with work-from-home days, and it also seems to run counter to promoting goodwill.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 28, 2025
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
When you look at ICE and DHS in general, a lot of people tend to conflate them into one big blob of immigration enforcement.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025
In order to present the Táin in its completest form, however, I have adopted the novel plan of incorporating in the LL. account the translations of what are known as conflate readings.
From The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge by Dunn, Joseph
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
