conflate

Some of them said he would often conflate words—saying one when he meant another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Law professors and pundits often conflate these things, but they are not the same.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

The branding has worked wonders for the studio’s reputation, leading diehard loyalists to conflate the production-and-distribution company with the art it finances — resulting in capsule collections of merch flying off the digital shelves.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

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

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 James Boyle

But the entire debate conflates two quite different things.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

This definition conflates Jewish people with the state of Israel while also maintaining that conflating Jewish people with the state of Israel is itself antisemitic.

From Slate ● May 29, 2025

Not all are alike, but the average person conflates the terms.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024

She lets the first verse play, then has the rest of the song soundtrack a montage that speeds through the story and conveniently conflates certain events.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024

The group lost an initial judicial review, but were successful on appeal when Lady Dorrian ruled that the bill "conflates and confuses two separate and distinct protected characteristics".

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2023

He conflated this with Greece’s S-300s, acquired in the 1990s to resolve a dispute over Cyprus, long before the relevant U.S. sanctions were adopted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

People have conflated the negative housing cycle with the strength of the business; the stock now trades for 22 times this year’s estimates.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

“Misinformation was circulating that conflated these parking lot safety measures with immigration enforcement. That is false,” she wrote in an email.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

The trip began with a bit of drama that some later conflated: Air Force One, enroute to Davos, had to turn around because of an electrical problem in the Boeing 747.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

It is likely that he conflated two or three in Revere’s portrait.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

Some calculate the metric aggressively to project strength, while others avoid citing a single headline figure to prevent conflating cash with credit lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

“There’s something fun about conflating the physical aches and pains of middle age with the more metaphysical aches and pains of middle age,” says Tropper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

The firm said Barron’s reporting could be conflating distinct matters.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

You’re conflating two different problems: hackers and hardware.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 28, 2025

But I always hear myself displacing the two languages, conflating them—maybe conflagrating them—for there’s so much rubbing and friction, a fire always threatens to blow up between the tongues.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee