(v. t.) To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The citizenship debate is tawdry, conflated and ultimately pointless | Richard Ackland Read more On Wednesday, the prime minister criticised lawyers for backing terrorists.
(2) Henry IV Phyllida Lloyd follows her all-female production of Julius Caesar with another single-sex take on a conflated version of the two parts of Shakespeare’s greatest history play.
(3) But the demise of white supremacy does not mean the end of white people, just of their supremacy; given the widespread conflation of the two by discomfited white people, perhaps we do need a month to teach us all the difference.
(4) So when you give them that, of course they’re going to fund you and give you resources and connect you to the right people.” That there are imams on the taskforce is also a concern to imam Hassan Jaamici Mohamud, who believes it conflates church and state, and could cause distrust among the congregations.
(5) News editors have conflated on-demand with live – and in doing so have added costs for very little audience benefit.
(6) "I see no conflation of public and private lives here.
(7) They might be valid topics for philosophy or religion classes, UCS argues, but when conflated with science make it harder for people to trust scientists.
(8) Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat Chrysler, objected to comparisons of Volkswagen and Fiat Chrysler, suggesting that conflating the two was evidence of a different kind of unlawful emission: Anyone who compares Fiat to VW “is smoking illegal material,” Marchionne told Reuters.
(9) "We should, of course, listen to the interests associated with us, and the assortment of pressure groups banging on our door but never conflate their noise, which with social media can seem deafening, with public opinion or let them decide policy.
(10) Propaganda that conflates antisemitism with opposition to Israel has also played a role.
(11) Read more Pavan Sukhdev, the environmental economist who led a global study on the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity , believes this is a fundamental misreading of the concept which conflates placing a value on something with putting a price tag on it.
(12) Mr Browne said: "You do what you consistently do in relation to the debates around immigration and asylum which is that you conflate the two issues.
(13) This, conflated with a kind of turbo-Darwinism, made eugenics a common feature of the national debate, and it was not at all unusual for judges and politicians and other notables to wish, out loud, like Leslie Scott, the solicitor general, that "by a stroke of the pen it could be ordained that from today onwards no mental defective should be allowed to breed".
(14) To compete, organisations oversell the vulnerability of their beneficiaries while conflating one-off interventions with transforming a life.
(15) And even if one decides to stretch this term to include all animals, it cannot be done without conflating what I believe to be important differences in the moral standing of humans and animals.
(16) Indulging the Farageist conflation of Eastern migrants with scrounging and criminality was a very efficient way to undo any sense of gratitude or solidarity that was available in Bucharest or Warsaw.
(17) • This article was amended on 26 September to correct a conflation of Sid Caesar and Ed Sullivan.
(18) In his piece, Professor Beresford conflates a large number of disparate theories and concepts, at the same time as seeming to misrepresent the core argument made by Kids Company that early abuse or neglect can damage or disrupt the brains of those subjected to such experiences.
(19) At best, the government is conflating poverty with its many consequences.
(20) Finally, it is argued that a test of the minimum principle is necessarily conflated with two other hypotheses, one concerning the metric of simplicity and one concerning the task conception of the experimental subjects.
Deflate
Definition:
(v. t.) To reduce from an inflated condition.
Example Sentences:
(1) The balloon was then deflated, permitting blood reperfusion.
(2) Most travel in overcrowded inflatable dinghies that have just one air pocket, making deflation more likely.
(3) They've repeatedly deflated the pressure from Portland when it threatens to build into dangerous momentum, and for the most part Borchers and Schuler, and sometimes Beckerman have been first to the most dangerous balls in their own box.
(4) Stepwise inflation and deflation was done for analysis of oesophageal compliance and hysteresis.
(5) The Greek consumer prices index shrank by 2.9% in November, showing deflation accelerated after October's reading of minus 2.0%.
(6) Shop price deflation in the non-food sector overall accelerated to 2.7% in January from 2.3% in December, with clothing and footwear deflation the biggest contributor at 9.9%.
(7) Does this count as campaigning?” “When was the last time you flipped a steak?” “What does it feel like to be in Iowa?” “Can you bring the reporters some meat?” “Are you running, Hillary,” one reporter shouted, finally, “from us?” Then Bill and Hillary disappeared around the corner; three quarters of the media scrum vanished, deflated.
(8) While complications such as infection, implant exposure, deflation, hematoma, and seroma may occur and alter the timing of reconstruction, they rarely compromise the final result.
(9) It became clear, as Bourguiba went on, that he had two objectives in mind: to deflate and mildly humiliate the young Nasserist Libyan, and to outline his vision of the Arab world.
(10) A common although infrequently recognized complication associated with the use of a pneumatic tourniquet is profuse bleeding from the wound after deflation of the tourniquet.
(11) To test this hypothesis and to explore how the pleural pressure gradient might affect inhomogeneity of alveolar pressures, we deflated at submaximal flows excised canine lobes that first were suspended in air and then were immersed in foams that simulated the vertical gradient of pleural pressure.
(12) This looks like the mild and benign variety of deflation which is good news for consumers and for growth.
(13) Although the patient had had previous abdominal surgery, she had no adhesions that were considered contributory to the obstructive process at surgery; the deflated bubble did not deflate enough to traverse the distal ileum.
(14) Utilizing the arterial and venous occlusion technique, the effects of lung inflation and deflation on the resistance of alveolar and extraalveolar vessels were measured in the dog in an isolated left lower lobe preparation.
(15) Yet it was the drama and controversy of Odemwingie's failed move that appeared to deflate Redknapp, who also missed out on Stoke City's Peter Crouch, another of his targets up front, and a third Tottenham player, the midfielder David Bentley.
(16) Inflation rises, but we should still fear deflation Read more Sharply lower oil prices are set to keep a lid on inflation, leaving the UK central bank in no hurry to raise rates above 0.5% , where they have remained for nearly seven years.
(17) When Ppa - Palv was less than 10 cmH2O in zone 2 conditions, flow decreased monotonically during deflation from TLC.
(18) The deflation of latex rubber balloons in vivo has been attributed to the same cause.
(19) Psychological characteristics were assessed by a psychiatric interview and psychometric inventories; response to distension was tested by placing a tube in the rectosigmoid colon and successively inflating a nd deflating a balloon at its tip at 10 cm3 increments up to 50 cm3.
(20) In Japan, where deflation has taken hold, the stock market is trading at just a quarter of its 1989 level.