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What does mutually exclusive mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word mutually exclusive? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Describing multiple events or states of being such that the occurrence of any one implies the non-occurrence of all the others.
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He's a pillock, but being a pillock and being a good writer were never mutually exclusive.
Therefore, though we distinguish between the many causes of suffering, we do not see those categories as existing in mutually exclusive settings.
The response options were not mutually exclusive, so an individual rated each one on a scale ranging from never to very often.
Again activism and commerce are neither contradictory nor mutually exclusive.
I beg that someone will recognise my abasement and meet my very human but mutually exclusive needs.
A third option, not mutually exclusive with option two, is working to create political change.

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