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Sind badly disrupted by conflict moving to the centre (7)

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I believe the answer is:

inwards

'moving to the centre' is the definition.

'sind badly disrupted by conflict' is the wordplay.
'badly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'disrupted by' indicates putting letters inside.
'conflict' becomes 'war' (war is a kind of conflict).
'sind' anagrammed gives 'inds'.
'inds' going around 'war' is 'INWARDS'.

(Other definitions for inwards that I've seen before include "Towards the core" , "Towards the interior" , "Towards the middle" , "Centripetal" , "Opposite of outwards" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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