conflate
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Don’t conflate Fama and his merry band of economists at the business school with the Chicago School of Economics, practitioners in the university’s economics department led by another Nobel laureate, Milton Friedman.
From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026
"People want to conflate that we have global obligations with the turning of our backs to this region," he said, denying that was the case.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
You see this sort of language used when people conflate various definitions of globalism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
And while Sweeney has certainly faced her own share of critics throughout her relatively young career, director David Michôd’s film is eager to conflate these two stories.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
For their part, police publicly conflate all hacking crimes with robbing payphones with crowbars.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce
Vocabulary lists containing conflate
Power Prefix: con-
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Four Power Prefixes: anti-, con-, inter-, and uni-.
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