conflation

Examples of conflating

conflating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Now there is a danger here of conflating these very distinct yet related goals.
We can create new partitions from old by conflating blocks.
The child is not concerned because he trusts his pediatrician - conflating the pediatrician's role as clinician and scientist.
Another group of works aspires to the sublime rather than the ridiculous, conflating the exposed teeth of the singer with those of the rapt mystic.
By conflating their local concerns with a national emergency they portrayed their request for an official ban on emigration as a wartime necessity.
This fallacious implication relies on conflating the brain and the cortex.
In general, therefore, hateful speech does not preempt further speech, whereas conflating pain and harm simply begs the question in favor of political regulation.
The fair-opportunity theory, in conflating moral blamelessness and legal innocence, fails to capture this nuance of the law.
Conflating harm and humiliation can do this as well, while leaving unaddressed the fact that humiliation is subject to tests of reasonableness.
First, children might be overzealously conflating tense and grammatical aspect into the same morphemes.
They breathed life into this label by conflating the state with the party, and party disloyalty with state treason.
However, conflating infinitude and finitude is not as simple as such a statement would lead one to believe for we now have several problems.
We examine only spousal care-givers to avoid conflating the outcomes for bereaved spouses with those of other bereaved care-givers.
In conflating the prenasal and the main vowel systems and thus failing to recognize polysystemicity this account again fails to satisfy lexical minimality.
The particular potency of the concept derived from its utility for conflating the latter with the former.
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