verb
- to combine two or more things into one, especially in a way that treats them as the same when they should be kept separate
Usage: formal
Examples
- The reporter conflated the two separate incidents in her article.
- Students often conflate correlation with causation in statistics.
- Don’t conflate being busy with being productive.
- The politician conflated his opponent’s position with extremism.
- Critics argued that the study conflated different types of data.
- It’s easy to conflate confidence with competence.