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conflation

[ kuhn-fley-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the process or result of fusing items into one entity; fusion; amalgamation.
  2. Bibliography.
    1. the combination of two variant texts into a new one.
    2. the text resulting from such a combination.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of conflation1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Late Latin word ³¦´Ç²Ô´Ú±ôÄå³Ù¾±Å. See conflate, -ion
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We ended up with 31,000 noncitizens of Japanese, German, and Italian descent who were put into camps based principally on their ancestry or the conflation of their ethnicity with disloyalty and dangerousness.

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Could there be a more emphatic conflation of symbolic maleness and brute force?

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You wouldn’t know it, given the casual media conflation of prescription fentanyl with the unregulated, often contaminated, unknown-dose illicit version, but opioid prescription rates in the U.S. have plummeted to levels not seen since Kurt Cobain was alive.

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“This inaccurate conflation of pro-Palestine advocacy with antisemitism sets a scary precedent of censorship for the student community where only certain students are able to participate in free speech,†the letter said.

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On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Aviation Administration, the FBI, and the Department of Defense issued a joint statement stating that the seeming rush of drones was a conflation of disparate events and misidentifications.

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