conflate
Example Sentences
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When shark sightings, encounters and bites all get conflated under the catchall umbrella of an "attack", the danger seems greater than it is.
From BBC
Legal authority and moral or civic wisdom aren’t the same thing, and conflating the two only deepens division and erodes trust.
He said Maccabi fans had just pulled down one flag the night before the Amsterdam game and that some of West Midlands Police's evidence "conflated" different things.
From BBC
It said the researchers relied on an outdated and narrow data set to reach unwarranted conclusions, and conflated correlation with causation.
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
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