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Conflicting information received in delight (9)

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I believe the answer is:

divergent

'conflicting' is the definition.
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'information received in delight' is the wordplay.
'information' becomes 'gen' (gen can informally mean information).
'received in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'delight' becomes 'divert' (I've seen this before).
'gen' inserted into 'divert' is 'DIVERGENT'.

(Other definitions for divergent that I've seen before include "(Of lines) moving apart" , "Moving apart in different directions" , "different from the others?" , "Going in differing directions" , "showing disagreement" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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