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conflate

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8 lettersPronunciation /kənˈfleɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aceflnotStarts with CEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. mix together different elements

Word origin

Attested since 1541: from Latin cōnflātus, past passive participle of cōnflō (“fuse, kindle, blow together”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Used in a sentence

  • “Bacon was Lord Chancellor of England and the first European to experiment with gunpowder.” — “No, you are conflating Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon.”
  • But in reality, the order simply furthers the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies by continuing to conflate immigration issues with criminal ones.
  • But again, this conflates global geographic variation with race, says Alan Goodman, a biological anthropologist at Hampshire College.

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