How to Use conflate in a Sentence

conflate

verb
  • 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
  • This is no time to conflate your rights and your regrets, Eliza.
    Charlotte Cowles, The Cut, 26 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Trump's tweet conflated two parts of the email scandal.
    John Wagner, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2017
  • 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
  • In Europe, public opinion tends to conflate the nation and the state.
    John Fund, National Review, 10 Dec. 2017
  • What gets lost is that strength and activism should not be conflated.
    Vogue, 13 May 2018
  • But the two issues—both of which dealt with email—got conflated as one issue in the minds of lots and lots of voters.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 1 June 2017
  • But the two issues -- both of which dealt with email -- got conflated as one issue in the minds of lots and lots of voters.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 1 June 2017
  • 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
  • The mistake that too many fans make is to conflate business with character.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 12 Oct. 2020
  • But mostly people are freaked out by it, even non-Chiefs fans, probably because people usually conflate voodoo with black magic.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Later, Greek poets also identify her with Selene, the personification of the moon, likely because her brother Apollo was by then conflated with the sun god Helios.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025

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