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What does conflation mean?

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Noun
  1. (countable) A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
  2. (uncountable) A blend or fusion, especially a composite reading or text formed by combining the material of two or more texts into a single text.
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Both floor and wall-mounted pieces emphasized the witty conflation of drawing and sculpture.
The caricature is really a conflation of several separate styles of thought and belief, and they almost never come together.
Its richness is partly derived from the conflation of wildly disparate images.
The desire to be thought tough is of course itself the real weakness, and the lazy conflation of meaning and justification is simply foolish.
But today, the implications of such a conflation of different levels of criticism and prejudice are dangerously censorious.
The brash 1875 iron bridge is concealed by his idiosyncratic conflation of the two banks.

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