How to Use conflation in a Sentence

conflation

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  • This isn’t the first conflation among members of the band.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
  • Sutton has been saddened by the conflation of the two ideas.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Not the whole overwrought overman stuff, and not the conflation of pity and weakness.
    — Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Notice the absurd conflation of the regime with the nation — the Cuban people.
    — Aron Ravin, National Review, 20 July 2021
  • What is deeply concerning to me is the conflation of access to the right to vote and the outcome of elections.
    — ABC News, 6 Oct. 2022
  • There must be weird deep currents of shame that would lead you to that point, a conflation of the child’s success with your own.
    — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
  • To my eye, the same lumping and conflation appears to hold true for the study Benbrook published this week.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2012
  • And so must the rhetorical conflation of Trump and Bannon.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Many have taken issue with her conflation of race and caste.
    — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Drakeo loved to rap with equal venom about murder and lifting shirts from high-end retailers; the conflation of the two was the point.
    — Paul Thompson, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Members often mistake that form for the gospel, and that conflation is hurting many of us.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2021
  • Today’s midterm elections appear once again to hinge, in some part, on a conflation of civil rights with a rise in crime.
    — Time, 3 Nov. 2022
  • This grotesque conflation feels like the fitting capstone to his career.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Massie said his vote was due to the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
    — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2024
  • One of the more insidious effects of this is the conflation of success and merit.
    — Cody Delistraty, The Cut, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The special’s title is a reference to his real one, a conflation of two of the names of his grandfathers.
    — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The conflation is due to a tradition in parts of Europe that the gift bringer at Christmas is an incarnation of the young Jesus, not the old fat guy in the sleigh.
    — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2020
  • This conflation stinks of sexism of a bygone era where woman is seen as lesser than man and so to receive is to be weaker, too.
    — Gina Tonic, refinery29.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The worst part of this dynamic in Russian history is the conflation of the Russian state with a personal ruler.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2022
  • However, much of the confusion around masks stems from the conflation of two very different functions of masks.
    — Jeremy Howard, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2020
  • If Rubchinskiy and Gvasalia are dressing us as members of the proletariat, Sergeenko’s clothes are an odd conflation of peasants and princesses — the garb of the former with the price tags of the latter.
    — Alexander Fury, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2017
  • Ms Gerwig’s conflation of Alcott’s life with the novel makes the film’s feminist message hit home.
    — The Economist, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The conflation of artistic brilliance and commercial success is truly the vomit emoji, and the art market isn’t telling the story of great art.
    — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Much of this health risk, and who bears it, is grounded in our society’s easy conflation of health and financial privilege.
    — Joseph Osmundson, The New Republic, 30 July 2020
  • The conflation of movement and meaning is deeply embedded in Western culture and in science.
    — Lisa Feldman Barrett, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022
  • This leads to a conflation of FTX’s public image with that of decentralized exchanges.
    — Vivek Ramaswamy and Mark Lurie, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Maybe your hostility stems from your conflation of the camera with the maternal gaze, the ever-present eye that threatens to obliterate your own point of view.
    — Meghan O'Gieblyn, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2024
  • There's always been a conflation of BLM, the organization, and the broader movement.
    — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Being a drag queen, in fact, is not the same as being transgender, though that conflation is a common misconception.
    — David Rosenfeld, The Mercury News, 20 July 2019
  • The faux semantic debate in right-wing media over these terms thus appears to rely, purposely or not, on an illogical conflation of the two words.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 16 June 2024

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