- present participle of conflict.
conflicting
Example Sentences
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Ashlee Sellars grapples with two seemingly conflicting beliefs: that Colleen's mother has a right to feel justice has been served and that everyone, including her friend Christa, deserves a chance at redemption.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Similar principles could help researchers think about how artificial intelligence systems might handle conflicting streams of information and decide which signals to trust.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
There are plenty more examples of conflicting surveys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
A payable-on-death or beneficiary designation is a contract and, as such, trumps a conflicting provision in the will.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
There weren’t too many animals on the planet that were capable of eating a human and I had conflicting thoughts about this.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
Vocabulary lists containing conflicting
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