All 12 Uses
conflict
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The Host
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- Not very often the conflict or violence you seem to think it is.†
Chpt 2conflict = struggle or disagreement
- I considered the conflicting opinions of the Healer and the Seeker.†
Chpt 2 *conflicting = opposing (struggling against each other)
- When the stories conflicted with the official information I sought out, I naturally believed the first reports.†
Chpt 2conflicted = tension from opposing ideas or feelings
- Who would choose a life of conflict and pursuit?†
Chpt 2conflict = struggle or disagreement
- There's a new conflict I don't recognize in his expression, and even though I don't understand it completely, it erases the feeling of rejection that's making my eyes sting.†
Chpt 8
- Jared might have fought to keep me alive, but it was plain that he was intensely conflicted about that decision.†
Chpt 16conflicted = tension from opposing ideas or feelings
- It conflicted jarringly with the sensation of Ian's kiss.†
Chpt 38
- I sagged, my body confused by the conflicting directions it was receiving.†
Chpt 42conflicting = opposing (struggling against each other)
- Probably middle-aged—his features conflicted with one another, making it hard to tell; his hair was all white, but his face was smooth and unwrinkled.†
Chpt 48conflicted = tension from opposing ideas or feelings
- Feeling a smidge conflicted?†
Chpt 52
- No conflict there.†
Chpt 52conflict = struggle or disagreement
- Awkward, with all the conflicting personalities?†
Chpt 58conflicting = opposing (struggling against each other)
Definitions:
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(1)
(conflict) a struggle or disagreementin various senses, including:
- a serious disagreement -- as in "political conflict"
- the tension from two opposing ideas or feelings -- as in "I'm conflicted about where I should go to college."
- a violent fight or war -- as in "the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"
- an idiom that refers to tension between responsibilities to different entities -- "conflict of interest"
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)