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conflate

[kuhn-fleyt] / kənˈfleɪt /


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You see this sort of language used when people conflate various definitions of globalism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

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

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

A central challenge of our time is that many have come to conflate what’s possible with what’s probable.

From Salon • May 20, 2025

They will argue, and I agree, that the use of the term "property" can cause people mistakenly to conflate these rights with those to physical property.

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James