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Metamorphosis contains a tense exchange of words (12)

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I believe the answer is:

conversation

'exchange of words' is the definition.

'metamorphosis contains a tense' is the wordplay.
'metamorphosis' becomes 'conversion'.
'contains' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'tense' becomes 't' (abbreviation used in many dictionaries).
'a'+'t'='at'
'conversion' going around 'at' is 'CONVERSATION'.

(Other definitions for conversation that I've seen before include "22 between people" , "discussion" , "Talk, chat" , "Spoken exchange" , "Something to talk about?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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