I’m sorry if this seems dumb. I tend to take things literally and “mutual” and “exclusive” seem to be antonyms but mutually exclusive is a term used a lot and it confuses the crap out of me. I’m a native English speaker also.
Does it mean that the two things CAN exist together? I feel like my brain does gymnastics trying to understand the term; I’m not a dumb person but this term just totally eludes me!
Please don’t attack me, just trying to not feel stupid.
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Here’s an example: If you have a banana, you can either peel and eat the banana, or use it to bake banana bread. You can’t do both, therefore eating the banana and baking banana bread are mutually exclusive, as-in: both of them cannot happen at the same time.
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