All 3 Uses
conflict
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The Last Song
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- They didn't argue and avoided conflict as a rule.†
Chpt 9 *conflict = struggle or disagreement
- The years had dulled the emotional intensity, but he could remember the conflicting desire for company and the need to be left alone.†
Chpt 32conflicting = opposing (struggling against each other)
- She was besieged by a storm of conflicting emotions—desire, regret, longing, fear, grief, love.†
Chpt 37
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)