How to Use conflation in a Sentence

conflation

noun
  • That is, the conflation of money and things.
    — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • Not the whole overwrought overman stuff, and not the conflation of pity and weakness.
    — Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • There must be weird deep currents of shame that would lead you to that point, a conflation of the child’s success with your own.
    — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
  • This grotesque conflation feels like the fitting capstone to his career.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2022
  • This is a dangerous conflation and an insult to women who choose to cook.
    — Mina Holland, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Members often mistake that form for the gospel, and that conflation is hurting many of us.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2021
  • Today’s midterm elections appear once again to hinge, in some part, on a conflation of civil rights with a rise in crime.
    — Time, 3 Nov. 2022
  • What is deeply concerning to me is the conflation of access to the right to vote and the outcome of elections.
    — ABC News, 6 Oct. 2022
  • One of the culprits of this dynamic is the conflation of knowledge and wisdom.
    — Doug Sundheim, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • To my eye, the same lumping and conflation appears to hold true for the study Benbrook published this week.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2012
  • Massie said his vote was due to the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
    — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2024
  • In the right hands, this conflation of narrative and critique can have dazzling results.
    — Sloane Crosley, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Could there be a more emphatic conflation of symbolic maleness and brute force?
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Notice the absurd conflation of the regime with the nation — the Cuban people.
    — Aron Ravin, National Review, 20 July 2021
  • Podcaster Grant, who has a few other problems with the film, doesn’t think this conflation counts as one.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Drakeo loved to rap with equal venom about murder and lifting shirts from high-end retailers; the conflation of the two was the point.
    — Paul Thompson, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
  • One of the more insidious effects of this is the conflation of success and merit.
    — Cody Delistraty, The Cut, 2 Feb. 2018
  • This conflation stinks of sexism of a bygone era where woman is seen as lesser than man and so to receive is to be weaker, too.
    — Gina Tonic, refinery29.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Fujoshi expressed their surprise at the conflation.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The special’s title is a reference to his real one, a conflation of two of the names of his grandfathers.
    — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • As Jennings notes, this was the result of the conflation of two separate folkloric strands.
    — JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
  • However, much of the confusion around masks stems from the conflation of two very different functions of masks.
    — Jeremy Howard, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Much of this health risk, and who bears it, is grounded in our society’s easy conflation of health and financial privilege.
    — Joseph Osmundson, The New Republic, 30 July 2020
  • Anti-fat bias and the conflation of extreme thinness with beauty, discipline, and health has never gone away.
    — Michelle Konstantinovsky, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The conflation is fair after one of the more impressive runs in postseason history.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Being a drag queen, in fact, is not the same as being transgender, though that conflation is a common misconception.
    — David Rosenfeld, The Mercury News, 20 July 2019
  • Then there is the conflation of entertainment with quality.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The character of the mother in the film is actually a conflation of my grandmother and my mother.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The conflation of movement and meaning is deeply embedded in Western culture and in science.
    — Lisa Feldman Barrett, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022
  • One of the points of conflation that has emerged since the debate is between Biden’s running for president and his serving as president.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 8 July 2024

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