How to Use conflation in a Sentence

conflation

noun

• 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
• 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
• Of course, that required a certain amount of reductive storytelling — the compression of time, the conflation of characters, an oversimplification of ideas — but every movie must fight its way to life.
  — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024