There's a tendency to conflate proposing a solution with actually solving the problem. I think it's important to differentiate between the two.
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Conflate
//kənˈfleɪt//
Synonyms for "conflate" (15 found)
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1 entriesderived
6 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
94 translations across 23 languages.
Catalan
3 entries- confondre verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
- fusionar verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- unir verb (to fuse into a single entity)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 合併 /合并 verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- 混合 verb (to mix together different elements)
- 混同 verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
Czech
4 entries- propojit verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- sjednotit verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- sloučit verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- sloučit se verb (to fuse into a single entity)
Danish
2 entries- forveksle verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
- sammenføje verb (to fuse into a single entity)
Dutch
2 entries- samenvoegen verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- verbinden verb (to fuse into a single entity)
Esperanto
3 entries- intermiksi verb (to mix together different elements)
- kunfandi verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- misdistingi verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
Estonian
1 entries- kokku sulatama verb (to fuse into a single entity)
Finnish
4 entries- liittää verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- sekoittaa verb (to mix together different elements)
- sekoittaa verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
- sotkea verb (to mix together different elements)
French
4 entries- amalgamer verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- assembler verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- confondre verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- confondre verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
Galician
2 entries- amalgamar verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- fusionar verb (to fuse into a single entity)
German
4 entries- verbinden verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- vereinigen verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- vermischen verb (to mix together different elements)
- vermischen verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
Hungarian
4 entries- egybeolvaszt verb (to mix together different elements)
- egyesít verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- összekever verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
- összekombinál verb (to mix together different elements)
Italian
1 entries- confondere verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
Japanese
4 entries- ごちゃごちゃにする verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
- ごちゃにする verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
- ごちゃ混ぜにする verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
- 一括りにする verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
Polish
1 entries- połączyć verb (to fuse into a single entity)
Portuguese
4 entries- confundir verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
- equiparar verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
- fundir verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- juntar verb (to fuse into a single entity)
Romanian
4 entries- amalgama verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- amalgama verb (to mix together different elements)
- amesteca verb (to mix together different elements)
- confunda verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
Russian
3 entries- объединя́ть verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- пу́тать verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
- соединя́ть verb (to fuse into a single entity)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- sjediniti verb (to fuse into a single entity)
Spanish
4 entries- amalgamar verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- asimilar verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
- conflacionar verb (to fuse into a single entity)
- conflar verb (to fuse into a single entity)
Swedish
3 entries- förväxla verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
- sammanfläta verb (to mix together different elements)
- sammanfoga verb (to fuse into a single entity)
Turkish
1 entries- birleştirmek verb (to fuse into a single entity)
Ukrainian
4 entries- зливати verb (to mix together different elements)
- змішувати verb (to mix together different elements)
- плутати verb (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent)
- поєднувати verb (to fuse into a single entity)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
“Bacon was Lord Chancellor of England and the first European to experiment with gunpowder.” — “No, you are conflating Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon.”
Source: wiktionary
But in reality, the order simply furthers the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies by continuing to conflate immigration issues with criminal ones.
Source: wiktionary
But again, this conflates global geographic variation with race, says Alan Goodman, a biological anthropologist at Hampshire College.
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