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Understanding unusually seen as comprising conflict (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

awareness

'understanding' is the definition.
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'unusually seen as comprising conflict' is the wordplay.
'unusually' is an anagram indicator.
'comprising' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'conflict' becomes 'war' (war is a kind of conflict).
'seen'+'as'='seenas'
'seenas' anagrammed gives 'aeness'.
'aeness' enclosing 'war' is 'AWARENESS'.

(Other definitions for awareness that I've seen before include "Insight" , "Fact of consciousness" , "Consciousness,knowingness" , "Recognition" , "Knowledge or consciousness" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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