conflate

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You seem to conflate, as so many mistakenly do, the meanings of the words theory and hypothesis.

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  1. transitive verb To bring together; meld or fuse: "The problems [with the biopic] include . . . dates moved around, lovers deleted, many characters conflated into one” (Ty Burr).
  2. transitive verb To combine (two variant texts, for example) into one whole.

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  • It concentrated mostly on a so-called "militia movement" but "conflate (d) it with supporters of Ron Paul, Constitution Party presidential nominee Chuck Baldwin, and former congressman Bob Barr as 'militia' influenced terrorists and instructs the Missouri police to be on the lookout for supporters" of libertarian parties, issues, and people opposed to the North American Union and New World Order. —  Countercurrents.org
  • The word "conflate" means "to bring together" - and that's exactly what Judge Jones tried to do with respect to ID and fundamentalism. —  Evolution News & Views
  • To be sure, he asserts that Roosevelt tended to conflate the people and the State in a way that was quite outside the American political tradition, but he does not investigate the origin of these foreign notions. —  Claremont.org
  • How ridiculous to conflate a crazed gunman in Pennsylvania with people who never met him. —  BlueOregon
  • The problem is the muddled use of the term adware on the part of the AG in the settlement that seems to conflate adware and spyware, two very different things. —  ClickZ News Blog
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  1. Latin cōnflāre, cōnflāt- : com-, com- + flāre, to blow; see bhlē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin conflatus, past participle of conflare, blow together, from com-, together, + flare = English blow. Cf. inflate.
  2. = Italian conflato, from Latin conflatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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/kənˈfleɪt/
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