How do I exclude specific transitive dependencies of something I depend on?

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Hi. Thanks for this, super helpful. I want to know how do I go about adding multiple withouts. For example, here’s a sample where I’m trying to achieve this…

dependencies {
    def withoutSupportv4 = { exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-v4' }
    def withoutSupportv13 = { exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-v13' }
    def withoutSupportDesign = { exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'design-v13' }

    // For Material Datepicker
    compile deps.datePicker, withoutSupportv4, withoutSupportv13, withoutSupportDesign

}

Unfortunately, this doesn’t work for me. it works with only the extra one parameter i.e. compile deps.datePicker, withoutSupportv4 but adding more commas fails and I get this error:

Error:(93, 0) Cannot convert the provided notation to an object of type Dependency: build_ey73hh1h8f4tc0h2ljim03u1k$_run_closure2$_closure11@122c5b55.
The following types/formats are supported:
  - Instances of Dependency.
  - String or CharSequence values, for example 'org.gradle:gradle-core:1.0'.
  - Maps, for example [group: 'org.gradle', name: 'gradle-core', version: '1.0'].
  - FileCollections, for example files('some.jar', 'someOther.jar').
  - Projects, for example project(':some:project:path').
  - ClassPathNotation, for example gradleApi().

Comprehensive documentation on dependency notations is available in DSL reference for DependencyHandler type.