"conflation with" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe the merging or combining of two ideas, concepts, or things. It can be used in a variety of situations where there is a blending or confusion of different elements. Example: The article's argument on gender roles was weakened by its conflation with outdated stereotypes and prejudices.
There is a conflation with gender and sexuality.
In its aftermath, a debate has re-opened around criticism of Israel and its conflation with anti-Semitism.
"The Giaour" and "The Corsair" are both unBritish, and the plots in which they appear leave no room for conflation with their author.
"I believe that my resignation will help to ensure that there is no false conflation with events at a separate organization," Mr. Murdoch, 39, wrote in a letter to the BSkyB board, referring to News International, the British newspaper arm of his father's media empire.
"I am aware that my role as chairman could become a lightning rod for BSkyB, and I believe that my resignation will help to ensure that there is no false conflation with events at a separate organization," Mr. Murdoch wrote in a letter to the BSkyB board.
Misinterpretations of entropy and conflation with additional misunderstandings of the second law of thermodynamics are ubiquitous among scientists and non-scientists alike and have been used by creationists as the basis of unfounded arguments against evolutionary theory.
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This conflation brings with it two risks.
While I support their call for systemic approaches to capture the dynamic nature of living systems, I take issue with the conflation of reverse engineering with naïve reductionism.
This recent flowering of AI into a buzzword fit to be crammed onto every bulleted list of features has to do at least partly with the conflation of neural networks with artificial intelligence.
The second issue with the article is its conflation of "bad" with drinking and smoking.
