How to Use mutually exclusive in a Sentence

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• The two are not mutually exclusive and work best when they are both aligned with the company’s mission.
  — Yancey Spruill, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• Not that the two are mutually exclusive, as this season has shown in South Dakota.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2023
• Yes, the sweats are cozy, but no one’s taking them away from you and fastening your corset laces—they’re not mutually exclusive.
  — Jill Kargman, Town & Country, 20 Apr. 2021
• Whether we are also meant to see her as blinkered (as if faith and science are mutually exclusive) is less clear at that point.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
• While the two gaps aren’t mutually exclusive, the experience gap is the mortar around these skill bricks.
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• While much has been made of the need to balance public health measures and the economy, the two are not mutually exclusive, experts say.
  — Ben Westcott and Carly Walsh, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• Note, though, that the terms aren’t mutually exclusive.
  — Dallas News, 11 Dec. 2022
• Note, though, that the terms aren’t mutually exclusive.
  — Josh Beckerman, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2024
• Some have argued that the fox and the hedgehog are not mutually exclusive in a parable visionary sense.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• And bear in mind, all of these penalties are inclusive of each other, and not mutually exclusive.
  — Guinevere Moore, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• These goals are not mutually exclusive, but the latter is likely to constrain the former.
  — Laura He, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
• And, in many cases, the public says these aren't mutually exclusive.
  — CBS News, 11 June 2023
• Who says the desert and mountains are mutually exclusive?
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2022
• How could Abraham be both alien and resident when those terms seem to be mutually exclusive?
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• The bad news for guests—a group not mutually exclusive from the brides and grooms, especially those of a certain age who find themselves on the wedding circuit—is there may not be, at least not for a while.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 29 May 2021
• In his thinking, the two Mayorkases — the tough guy and the compassionate guy — are not mutually exclusive.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
• Such as love, or an unbearably long flight with no other options (the two are not mutually exclusive).
  — Lauren Goode, Wired, 13 Aug. 2021
• At the time, Blackness and Latinidad were perceived to be mutually exclusive.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2021
• After contract and injury issues that may not have been mutually exclusive, the Patriots sent Gilmore to the Panthers at the trade deadline last year.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• Of course, these strategies are not mutually exclusive and can be combined for an optimal mix.
  — Michael Timmes, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• And in the case of Hotel Marcel, eco-friendliness and beauty are not mutually exclusive.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2021
• And why do these things have to be mutually exclusive, because there just wasn't this license to participate.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2021
• Progressivism and conservatism are not mutually exclusive, at least not across the full range of moral concerns.
  — Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
• The anti-vaxxers assert in effect that the EUA and full authorization are mutually exclusive, as though a drug or vaccine can be only one or the other.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• Savvy, selfish Hawk and self-sacrificing Tim are like magnets, but their views on how to survive in a world that hates people like them are mutually exclusive.
  — TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
• Restaurants with party vibes Fine dining and a good vibe aren't mutually exclusive.
  — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
• Rock music originates with Black musicians in the 1920s, and there’s no handbook that says being brown and alt are mutually exclusive.
  — Yasmine Summan, refinery29.com, 15 July 2021
• Hiking and living in a vibrant city are no longer mutually exclusive.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2022
• Of course, these are not mutually exclusive and frequently can be combined.
  — Murli Thirumale, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• In total, the 12 new tracks stand as bold testimony that Eldredge is now less concerned with chasing hits than chasing great music — not that the two are mutually exclusive, of course.
  — Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024