Yes, there are non-athletes and athletes who conflate masculinity with athletics, but I think the narrative is changing and athletes, in private, are having important conversations about redefining masculinity and manhood.

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Many people conflate business incubators with accelerators.

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These stories are appealing, but they tend to conflate rudimentary, utilitarian Globish with English.

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Secretary-General Ban-Ki moon continues to conflate post-tropical cyclone Sandy with global warming.

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Unfortunately this report appears to conflate events organised for women to meet separately with those where genders are forced to sit separately.

BBC: Student lecture

What's most interesting to us is that the carriers are appearing to conflate bandwidth-heavy services like Facebook and YouTube with devices that customers use to access those services -- does it really make any sense to charge Apple or Google a fee for making good phones that encourage more network use, on top of charging users for tiered data?

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