conflate
[kuh n-fleyt]
verb (used with object), con·flat·ed, con·flat·ing.
to fuse into one entity; merge: to conflate dissenting voices into one protest.
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Origin of conflate
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Examples from the Web for conflate
Contemporary Examples of conflate
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Now it looks as if the Israeli strategy of trying to get us to conflate the issues has gained traction.
Christie will need to assure the party about his own integrity, and his tendency to conflate government with his own self.
And I think [Gould] was guilty of using a poetic language to conflate those three kinds of episodic changes.
But he really had the wit and the energy to conflate that disappointment into outrage.
conflate
verb
Word Origin for conflate
C16: from Latin conflāre to blow together, from flāre to blow
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