How to Use conflate in a Sentence

conflate

verb

• What gets lost is that strength and activism should not be conflated.
  — Vogue, 13 May 2018
• Giuliani seems to be conflating funds of the campaign with funds for the campaign.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 3 May 2018
• The problem was -- and is -- that Trump conflated insults and bullying with shaking things up.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 11 May 2018
• They are sometimes conflated and assigned importance beyond their era.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Other examples of unknowables can be conflated into three questions about origins: of the universe, of life and of the mind.
  — Marcelo Gleiser, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
• But these two issues often end up conflated and confused in the dizzying debate about drug affordability.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 11 May 2018
• Too often for many Jews, their culture and the politics of Israel are too easily conflated.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2018
• Weather modification happens on much smaller scales but should not be conflated with large scale weather processes.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
• Zuckerberg said — sidestepping the question by conflating public posting by users with data collection on Facebook’s part.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 11 Apr. 2018
• The twin victories of 1991 were conflated in the West but decoupled in Russia.
  — Seva Gunitsky, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2018
• Like many Americans, the country crooner conflates his crude, simplistic rhetorical style with sincerity.
  — Stephanie Fairyington, The New Republic, 3 May 2018
• Sounds like someone was either conflating two experiences (perhaps one with Stormy Daniels?) or more allegations have yet to surface — or, perhaps, both.
  — Amanda Arnold, The Cut, 19 Apr. 2018
• And then the last thing is don't conflate their actions with your worth.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2022
• For a while, Brittany does conflate the number on the scale with self-worth.
  — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Frequent weigh-ins could cause one to conflate health and weight.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• Some conflate this with the Big Bang of cosmic creation.
  — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz India, 18 Dec. 2019
• Do not conflate the feeling of sadness with a desire to get him back.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
• Both of these career paths are ones that get conflated with your sense of self.
  — Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 June 2023
• There was Rock the Vote, which people often conflate with Choose or Lose.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 May 2023
• There are hundreds of other Jazz Age relics that conflate the flapper and the crossword as icons of the Zeitgeist.
  — Anna Shechtman, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
• In Oz, prettiness and virtue are conflated, and Glinda is the fairest of them all.
  — Pam Grossman, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2019
• The bigger issue, in the lawyer’s mind, has been Ripple’s effort to conflate its case with the rest of the industry.
  — Byleo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 14 June 2023
• Still, Michels’ campaign continues to conflate the two, which makes this claim way off base.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2022
• Their wishes should not be conflated with those of Hamas.
  — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 30 July 2024
• To allow these two to be conflated is to lose the fight, as the EU is currently doing.
  — Jan Dutkiewicz, Vox, 2 May 2024
• The health discovery made headlines around the time of his acting break, and the two got conflated in reports.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 15 June 2023
• Biden, for his part, has a clear interest in conflating these two things.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2019
• Musk's legal threat conflates three of his current projects.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2023
• But amid the viral news, confusion also spread and led many to conflate the stories.
  — Abigail Abrams, Time, 31 May 2018
• The granting of preliminary approval is a significant advancement of the settlement, but should not be conflated with final approval, which is a separate and potentially much more contentious process.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024