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conflation

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A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.

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Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we're seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to be for religious reasons but it's actually the conflation of religion and politics - every political movement has its slogans, flags and dress. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The conflation of faith as "unevidenced belief” with its vernacular use as "confidence based on experience” is simply a word trick used to buttress religion. Jerry Coyne

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

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. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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

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