Do workflows affect eachothers change / create items triggers ?. if so can it be disabled

I have a SharePoint 365 environment with some workflows, and various lists all in a single site.
Workflows (triggered by their individual list "Add item" ) perform actions also in other lists.
One of the lists is mainly was updated by external workflows, it had no workflows assigned itself yet.
But that is going to change, manual updates to this list of the type "Add item", and "change item" need to be made.
However the current existing workflows should not trigger them (as they add and change items too...), is that possible ?. 

HI
Can you be more clear with your question.. You don't want external workflows to trigger item change in current list..etal?.  Only new workflow created specific to this list have to do item change?..
You can use pausing functionality in workflow to stop external workflows from executing until a specific date and only newly created workflows can run during that time.. I just wanted to confirm your question before answering..
Thank you

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