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In a statement, the BBC said her comments were "misleading", adding that she had been "conflating" the two stories.

“The politics of masking got conflated with school closures,” Imberman says.

So we begin to conflate the number in a person's bank account with their moral character.

And he was expressing his compromise, acknowledging that a civil servant cannot conflate his personal values and behaviors with public policy.

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he had likely revoked thousands of visas, conflating peaceful activism — including one student writing an Op-Ed in their school newspaper — with violent extremism.