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mutually exclusive

ADJECTIVE
  1. unable for both to exist or be true at the same time

How To Use mutually exclusive In A Sentence

  • He admired Machiavelli for recognizing that sometimes our ends are mutually exclusive and for facing that fact unblinkingly.
  • Are fundamentalism and democracy mutually exclusive?
  • The two alternatives, presented as dichotomous above, may be viewed as partly overlapping, and not mutually exclusive.
  • I think that the second point might be a little abstract to understand, but what is boggling my mind is are these two ideas that dictate our morality and state of mind mutually exclusive?
  • How can it be that identical bays on opposite sides of the same street have mutually exclusive systems of payment? Times, Sunday Times
  • Xorandor's logic transgresses that of binary systems because he combines mutually exclusive operations.
  • Of course, the three subcategories overlap, somewhat, and so are not mutually exclusive.
  • Alternative explanations can be complementary rather than mutually exclusive. Christianity Today
  • Again activism and commerce are neither contradictory nor mutually exclusive.
  • I don't think they're quite alternatives in terms of being mutually exclusive, but maybe dimensionality is not quite as apt a metaphor here. Strange Fiction 8
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