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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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The two alternatives, presented as dichotomous above, may be viewed as partly overlapping, and not mutually exclusive.
Again activism and commerce are neither contradictory nor mutually exclusive.
This is, of course, ludicrous because corundum and quartz are mutually exclusive.
The response options were not mutually exclusive, so an individual rated each one on a scale ranging from never to very often.
In the past 25 years, traditional modes of exposition have continued to exist alongside sometimes mutually exclusive competing theories.
A third option, not mutually exclusive with option two, is working to create political change.

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