conflating
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conflating verb
- To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.
- To mix together different elements.
- (by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.““Bacon was Lord Chancellor of England and the first European to experiment with gunpowder.” — “No, you are conflating Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon.””
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amalgamateblendcoalescecomminglefluximmixmergemixconfuselump togethermix upfusemeldcombineconflationconfusablecombiningequating
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