How to Use conflate in a Sentence

conflate

verb

• But amid the viral news, confusion also spread and led many to conflate the stories.
  — Abigail Abrams, Time, 31 May 2018
• What was interesting to me was how people conflated issues and ideas.
  — Chris Barton, latimes.com, 3 June 2018
• Yet the two are often dangerously conflated, and in the case of the series, we’re left with a very unsettling dilemma.
  — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 21 May 2018
• Fox displayed a picture of Eagles kneeling in prayer during a segment, conflating that action with the protests during the national anthem.
  — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 5 June 2018
• For years the authorities have conflated the campaign for tribal rights with India’s long-running Maoist insurgency.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• Community has been so commonly conflated with conformity.
  — Sons Of An Illustrious Father, Billboard, 10 June 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
• To conflate the two, as figures on the right have done quite casually, is unhinged.
  — WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
• The mistake that too many fans make is to conflate business with character.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 12 Oct. 2020
• Hard to know; records are fragmentary and conflated with myth.
  — William Meyers, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019
• To conflate the two is a radical and extreme position to take.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 23 Apr. 2023
• When praise relates to someone’s results, the brain conflates the sense of self and identity with that success.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 5 Oct. 2023
• But King says that solar and CO2 are different energy sources and do not conflate the two.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• The newsletter also conflated that 2023 slide with the slow-moving ongoing slide at nearby Portuguese Bend.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
• More recently, legal has conflated metrics with automation and redundancy.
  — Mark A. Cohen, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024