Steven Pinker's article has skirted a central problem of sociobiology - the conflating of biology and morality.

These include standard theatrical techniques such as time compression and the conflating of supporting characters and locations, as well as larger deviations from recorded history.

With what seemed like pride, Simpson reminded me of his historic status - that his story pioneered the conflating of mainstream and tabloid news that now routinely fuels Mediathons.

In the now legendary White House press conference of March 6, 2003, not a single reporter, electronic or print, asked a tough question about anything, including the president's repeated conflating of 9/11 with the impending war on Iraq (eight times in that appearance alone).

Over time, opposition to the war in Afghanistan has grown more widespread, partly as a result of weariness with the length of the conflict, and partly as a result of a conflating of the conflict with the unpopular war in Iraq.

She conflated this sort of being looked after with financial security.

Other writers, however, both before and after him, conflated the two.

Here, however, he conflates the media by using both devices together.

So, by abuse of language, the two are often conflated.

The sad thing is that we often conflate the two.

There are two debates going on here and you're conflating them.

Various episodes from the book have been both cut and conflated with others in the film.

Despite their differences in administration and effect, the two proposals are usually conflated.

You are conflating the term inflation with "the cost of living."

Trying to conflate climate change with the bankers just does not work.

You really would have to be a quarter wit to conflate the two.

I think people tend to conflate hope into optimism, but they're not the same thing.

Or in the course of pontificating, have you conflated the two?

He manages this only by conflating two very different concepts.

Either way, she came to conflate suffering - both physical and emotional - with love.

I think you've conflated a couple of issues here.

As Claude says there are different traditions being conflated here.

Since the Renaissance, it has sometimes been combined or conflated with one of these.

The urban crisis or the inner city problem conflates a number of quite different economic, political and social issues.

In some ways it was conflated with other things.

The two terms have been conflated by Java developers in the past.

Sorry if I conflate my answers in response to addressing both of you.

Federal support for housing finance in the current system has at times conflated these two objectives.

The film conflates his two wives into the character of Anne.