How to Use conflate in a Sentence

conflate

verb

• This is no time to conflate your rights and your regrets, Eliza.
  — Charlotte Cowles, The Cut, 26 Oct. 2017
• But gig work should not be conflated with independent work.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• What studies often do is conflate gun homicides and suicides.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 6 Oct. 2017
• In Europe, public opinion tends to conflate the nation and the state.
  — John Fund, National Review, 10 Dec. 2017
• Worse, as some have pointed out, the current system conflates our roles as citizens and consumers.
  — Penny Abeywardena, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
• Many a tech oracle seems to conflate the invention of a device with its widespread adoption.
  — Aaron Mak, Slate Magazine, 18 Sep. 2017
• Consumers’ ability and willingness to spend are not the same but are often conflated.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
• Attempting to conflate tribal status with DNA denies the cultural affinity that people have with their tribes.
  — Adam Rutherford, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Giuliani seems to be conflating funds of the campaign with funds for the campaign.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 3 May 2018
• What gets lost is that strength and activism should not be conflated.
  — Vogue, 13 May 2018
• 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
• The fan may have attempted to conflate Mills' dreadlocks hairstyle with one of the characters from the film.
  — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 26 Feb. 2018
• Because usually schisms conflate only when they are supported by the state, and this was the case in the Ukraine.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• 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
• To conflate the two, as figures on the right have done quite casually, is unhinged.
  — WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024