Mutual
adjective
Shared by two or more people.
We have a mutual friend.
Often appears as...
- mutual friend
- mutual agreement
adjective
Having the same feeling for each other.
The respect is mutual.
Often appears as...
- mutual respect
- mutual admiration
adjective
Endowed in common, related to a mutual arrangement.
We both have mutual admiration for each other.
Often appears as...
- mutual contract
- mutual fund
adjective
Operating in a way that all profits or benefits are shared.
A mutual society or company.
Often appears as...
- mutual benefit
- mutual society
adjective
Shared by two or more people.
We have a mutual friend.
Often appears as...
- mutual friend
- mutual agreement
adjective
Having the same feeling for each other.
The respect is mutual.
Often appears as...
- mutual respect
- mutual admiration
adjective
Endowed in common, related to a mutual arrangement.
We both have mutual admiration for each other.
Often appears as...
- mutual contract
- mutual fund
adjective
Operating in a way that all profits or benefits are shared.
A mutual society or company.
Often appears as...
- mutual benefit
- mutual society
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Pro Tip 1/2Common Interests
Used to express shared interests or activities among people.
We discovered our mutual love for chess.
Pro Tip 2/2Not One-Sided
'Mutual' implies that something is equally shared, not just from one side.
Our decision to cancel the trip was mutual.
Pro Tip 1/2Common Interests
Used to express shared interests or activities among people.
We discovered our mutual love for chess.
Pro Tip 2/2Not One-Sided
'Mutual' implies that something is equally shared, not just from one side.
Our decision to cancel the trip was mutual.
Pro Tip 1/2Common Interests
Used to express shared interests or activities among people.
We discovered our mutual love for chess.
Pro Tip 2/2Not One-Sided
'Mutual' implies that something is equally shared, not just from one side.
Our decision to cancel the trip was mutual.
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Does grammar matter? -...
But while the debate between prescriptivism and descriptivism continues, the two are not mutually exclusive. At its best, prescriptivism is useful for informing people about the most common established patterns at a given point in time. This is important, not only for formal contexts, but it also makes communication easier between non-native speakers
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Michael McDaniel: Cheap,...
"Son, our government looks to private sector for things like this." Okay. So maybe I would take this whole idea and go to private corporations that would have this mutually shared benefit to it, but I was quickly told by some corporations that my personal passion project was not a brand fit because they didn't want their logos stamped
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Feedback loops: How...
What exactly is feedback? The key element, whether in sound, the environment or social science, is a phenomenon called mutual causal interaction, where x affects y, y affects x, and so on, creating an ongoing process called a feedback loop. And the natural world is full of these mechanisms
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The networked beauty of...
and actually allowed humans to eventually evolve. Now, we call this symbiosis a mycorrhiza, myco for fungus, rrhiza for root. So, the fungus and root get together, and they trade for mutual benefit. Now, all trees in all forests all over the world
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Ami Klin: A new way to...
who are looking at them rather than people who are looking away. Well, they orient to the caregiver. The caregiver seeks the baby. And it's out of this mutually reinforcing choreography that a lot that is of importance to the emergence of mind --
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Gastronomy and the...
backgrounds and you know what the main ingredient that day was mutual respect we sat down with southern white folks as cousins rather than combatants you know what the ancestors who lived in those cabins they could never have dreamed of
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Peter van Uhm: Why I...
It enhances peace even further. Where there is no conflict, trade flourishes. And trade is another important incentive against violence. With trade, there's mutual interdependency and mutual gain between parties.
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Monitor Lizard vs. Croc...
African bird has formed a mutual defense pact with a slightly larger animal the ferocious half-ton Nile crocodile you can imagine how the croc might protect the dicker but what can a bird do for
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Are China and the US...
can in fact carve out a common future for themselves and for the world? In short, can we carve out a future which is peaceful and mutually prosperous, or are we looking at a great challenge
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BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
these two nests in mutual ignorance for all these years these new honey ants are unlike any the Corral workers have encountered before they are big and
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Does grammar matter? -...
But while the debate between prescriptivism and descriptivism continues, the two are not mutually exclusive. At its best, prescriptivism is useful for informing people about the most common established patterns at a given point in time. This is important, not only for formal contexts, but it also makes communication easier between non-native speakers
Video examples
Michael McDaniel: Cheap,...
"Son, our government looks to private sector for things like this." Okay. So maybe I would take this whole idea and go to private corporations that would have this mutually shared benefit to it, but I was quickly told by some corporations that my personal passion project was not a brand fit because they didn't want their logos stamped
Video examples
Feedback loops: How...
What exactly is feedback? The key element, whether in sound, the environment or social science, is a phenomenon called mutual causal interaction, where x affects y, y affects x, and so on, creating an ongoing process called a feedback loop. And the natural world is full of these mechanisms
Video examples
The networked beauty of...
and actually allowed humans to eventually evolve. Now, we call this symbiosis a mycorrhiza, myco for fungus, rrhiza for root. So, the fungus and root get together, and they trade for mutual benefit. Now, all trees in all forests all over the world
Video examples
Ami Klin: A new way to...
who are looking at them rather than people who are looking away. Well, they orient to the caregiver. The caregiver seeks the baby. And it's out of this mutually reinforcing choreography that a lot that is of importance to the emergence of mind --
Video examples
Gastronomy and the...
backgrounds and you know what the main ingredient that day was mutual respect we sat down with southern white folks as cousins rather than combatants you know what the ancestors who lived in those cabins they could never have dreamed of
Video examples
Peter van Uhm: Why I...
It enhances peace even further. Where there is no conflict, trade flourishes. And trade is another important incentive against violence. With trade, there's mutual interdependency and mutual gain between parties.
Video examples
Monitor Lizard vs. Croc...
African bird has formed a mutual defense pact with a slightly larger animal the ferocious half-ton Nile crocodile you can imagine how the croc might protect the dicker but what can a bird do for
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Are China and the US...
can in fact carve out a common future for themselves and for the world? In short, can we carve out a future which is peaceful and mutually prosperous, or are we looking at a great challenge
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BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
these two nests in mutual ignorance for all these years these new honey ants are unlike any the Corral workers have encountered before they are big and
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Walter Scott
Scottish Novelist
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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Kamala Harris
American Vice President
In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
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John C. Maxwell
American Clergyman
Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.
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Larry Johnson
American Athlete
If I don't like a person and a person doesn't like me fine, that's mutual respect.
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Yoshihide Suga
Japanese Politician
The foundation of a nation is self-aid, mutual aid and public aid.
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Pearl S. Buck
American Novelist
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
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George Best
Irish Athlete
Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
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Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.
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Walter Scott
Scottish Novelist
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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Kamala Harris
American Vice President
In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
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John C. Maxwell
American Clergyman
Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.
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Larry Johnson
American Athlete
If I don't like a person and a person doesn't like me fine, that's mutual respect.
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Yoshihide Suga
Japanese Politician
The foundation of a nation is self-aid, mutual aid and public aid.
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Pearl S. Buck
American Novelist
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
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George Best
Irish Athlete
Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
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Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.
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