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“We are not happily diverse, we’re conflictingly different,” said Johana Herrera, director of the Observatory of Ethnic Territories at Javeriana University.

From Washington Post • May 21, 2022

The all-water disportment and the two, of different sexes, who after regarding me conflictingly from the beginning, ended in a like but inverted manner.

From The Mirror of Kong Ho by Bramah, Ernest

I obeyed mechanically, for Andr�'s words were filling all the night with confusing sounds that seemed to echo conflictingly from shore to shore.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

So long as several ideas are conflictingly attended to, they hinder each other.

From The Nature of Goodness by Palmer, George Herbert

And yet there shone through all these conflictingly peculiar eccentricities a humorous kind of religion which belonged exclusively to themselves, but which gave their characteristics a touch of sublimity.

From The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Runciman, Walter