conflicting

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If it is a textbook theory that allows for diverse, conflicting, and contradictory models, it is inconsistent and illogical.

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  1. Of opposite or opposing character, tendency, function, interest, etc.; mutually contradictory or incompatible; contrary; also, composed of antagonistic or opposing elements; involving antagonism: as, conflicting jurisdiction; the evidence was very conflicting.

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  • How strange, how inconsistent, how conflicting are these allusions! —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
  • But so conflicting was the tone of the letters that, if we had not taken a very fair gauge of ourselves and our advisers, we should have abandoned our project and buried all the valuable material collected, to sleep in pine boxes forever. —  Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897
  • The nascent race to patent specific genes has raised the conflicting issues of the proprietary rights of discovery versus the need for open access to information that is essential to building a robust biotech industry. —  Understanding the Genome
  • The evidence is conflicting, the pieces horrifying. —  Eclipse
  • Larvadain, who represents District 1, called the conflicting data "troubling." —  thetowntalk.com -
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