conflate
verb (used with object)
to fuse into one entity; merge.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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I should clarify here that I am conflating the date of the Yucca debate and the suicide that occurred at the Stratosphere Hotel.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2010