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Conflation meaning

  1. A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
  2. A blend or fusion, especially a composite reading or text formed by combining the material of two or more texts into a single text.

Using Conflation

  • The main meaning on this page is: A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry. | A blend or fusion, especially a composite reading or text formed by combining the material of two or more texts into a single text.
  • In the example corpus, conflation often appears in combinations such as: conflation of, the conflation, conflation with.

Context around Conflation

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
  • Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Conflation

  • In this selection, "conflation" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, weird, apparent and pulsating stand out and add context to how "conflation" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a conflation of the and a pulsating conflation of hip. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "conflation" sits close to words such as aarons, abra and accelerations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with conflation

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Where it goes wrong is the conflation of the rest of his world. (13 words)

Although Fulgentius' conflation with the contemporary African Saint Fulgentius is now questioned, Hays, Gregory. (14 words)

As it arises from a conflation with a Greek word, there is no corresponding verb. (15 words)

Davies (2009:8-9) Around this time the legendary figure of Hermes Trismegistus developed as a conflation of the Egyptian god Thoth and the Greek Hermes ; this figure was associated with writing and magic and, therefore, of books on magic. (40 words)

Boris Godunov has seldom been performed in either of the two forms left by the composer, Oldani (1982: p. 7) frequently being subjected to cuts, recomposition, re-orchestration, transposition of scenes, or conflation of the original and revised versions. (39 words)

Creissels asserts that Spanish is just one example of European languages in which these three cases are distinct, as opposed to other European languages, which exhibit some conflation between marking of the essive case and of the allative case. (39 words)

Conflation of free holiday parking to every other problem in this town, and with town councils? (16 words)

Example sentences (20)

We then have a conflation of the 2021 changes to Scots law with older English cases that pertain to entirely different aspects of English homelessness law.

Conflation of free holiday parking to every other problem in this town, and with town councils?

Here is a presidential candidate calling on a foreign country to influence an American election (even if we allow for Trump’s weird conflation of ‘Jews’ and ‘Israel,’ which has happened many times in the past).

Quite simply, I am going to accuse her of the use of symbolism, just not the same symbolism everyone thinks, and of a grand game of deception through conflation of types of people and concepts.

Particularly problematic is Vallières’s “conflation of exploitation and enslavement, as if those were more or less the same thing,” he said.

The apparent conflation of the two led to widespread befuddlement on social media in Ethiopia and elsewhere, though by and large the comments were not taken seriously.

The drama was the final piece of a trilogy of “break beat plays,” a pulsating conflation of hip hop and theater.

Where it goes wrong is the conflation of the rest of his world.

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Australian Minister Scott Morrison said that Anning’s conflation of violence and terrorism with immigration and Islam is “appalling” and has no place in the country’s political culture.

This is the case for Ajaz and his family, who have spent years trying to fight the conflation of Kargil with the Kashmir Valley.

While it is true that sex workers can be human trafficked, it is the unquestioning conflation of the two that can be dangerous, an assumption informed by xenophobia, racism, and myths of the migrant sex worker.

Mr. Alipoor said some young people who lean to the alt-right had been offended at the conflation of their beliefs with radical Islam and had demanded that Mr. Alipoor debate the matter with them on Reddit.

The political conflation of border protection and offshore detention and resultant inhumane internment of asylum seekers shows the inability to discriminate between policy and action in the face of self preservation.

A conflation of the 1869 and 1872 versions had been published by Pavel Lamm and aroused keen interest in the piece.

Although Fulgentius' conflation with the contemporary African Saint Fulgentius is now questioned, Hays, Gregory.

As it arises from a conflation with a Greek word, there is no corresponding verb.

Because his sister arranged the book based on her own conflation of several of Nietzsche's early outlines and took great liberties with the material, the scholarly consensus has been that it does not reflect Nietzsche's intent.

Boris Godunov has seldom been performed in either of the two forms left by the composer, Oldani (1982: p. 7) frequently being subjected to cuts, recomposition, re-orchestration, transposition of scenes, or conflation of the original and revised versions.

Creissels asserts that Spanish is just one example of European languages in which these three cases are distinct, as opposed to other European languages, which exhibit some conflation between marking of the essive case and of the allative case.

Davies (2009:8-9) Around this time the legendary figure of Hermes Trismegistus developed as a conflation of the Egyptian god Thoth and the Greek Hermes ; this figure was associated with writing and magic and, therefore, of books on magic.

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Common combinations with conflation

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "conflation" in a sentence?
An example: "We then have a conflation of the 2021 changes to Scots law with older English cases that pertain to entirely different aspects of English homelessness law." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "conflation" from authentic English texts.
What does "conflation" mean?
Conflation means: A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
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