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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conflate.

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Examples

  • The title conflates several emblematic gay rom-coms.

    NYT > Home Page By DENNIS LIM 2011

  • The popular fury against ‘banksters’, which conflates hostility to the established financial complex with hostility to the profession of banking as such, bothers me for similar reasons- it’s about “how dare your loyalties be ‘impersonal’, or outside our community”- the term conflates that which is economic without being civic with the criminal.

    How To Talk So The Government Can’t Listen. Part 1: how to encrypt your e-mail in Gmail with GPG (for use with Gmail or other web mail interfaces on Firefox in Windows) 2008

  • Like, during a debate, when he again conflates Iraqi insurgents with Al-Qaeda.

    Poll shows Obama with economy edge 2008

  • Inland Empire is interchangably terrifying, maddening, shockingly hilarious and perversely exciting, and that's just to those who end up disliking it. "initial impressions for the L Magazine:" [C] alling it inscrutable is incomplete - that label conflates narrative and thematic cohesion.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Inland Empire is interchangably terrifying, maddening, shockingly hilarious and perversely exciting, and that's just to those who end up disliking it. "initial impressions for the L Magazine:" [C] alling it inscrutable is incomplete - that label conflates narrative and thematic cohesion.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Inland Empire is interchangably terrifying, maddening, shockingly hilarious and perversely exciting, and that's just to those who end up disliking it. "initial impressions for the L Magazine:" [C] alling it inscrutable is incomplete - that label conflates narrative and thematic cohesion.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • "intellectual property" matter, since that term conflates copyright and trademark law, legally two very different beasts.

    New World Notes 2009

  • Blanket use of the word cyberattack conflates different kinds of crime with different means and motives.

    Cybercrime Comes to the IMF Jeremy Wagstaff 2011

  • Blanket use of the word cyberattack conflates different kinds of crime with different means and motives.

    Cybercrime Comes to the IMF Jeremy Wagstaff 2011

  • Mark Asch follows up on his initial impressions for the L Magazine: [C] alling it inscrutable is incomplete - that label conflates narrative and thematic cohesion.

    GreenCine Daily: Inland Empire. 2006

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