and/or
See also: Appendix:Variations of "andor"
English
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[edit]Conjunction
[edit]and/or
- Joins two alternatives to mean either or both; indicates that inclusive or is meant where or alone might be taken to mean exclusive or.
- List three personal and/or business references.
- 1960, Walt Kelly, Pogo, January 21 comic strip (→ISBN, p. 113):
- [Howland Owl:] There wasn't no everybody else... 'cept them what was in jail and/or dead.
[Albert:] Since when is it a crime to be dead?
- [Howland Owl:] There wasn't no everybody else... 'cept them what was in jail and/or dead.
- 2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in Georgia State University[1], archived from the original on 2025-01-25, page 40:
- And because people derive personal esteem and meaning from their group memberships, they are naturally inclined to evaluate their ingroups positively in comparison to outgroups. When an ingroup’s dominant social position is secure or not contested by lower-status outgroups, intergroup harmony is expected to prevail. But when perceived as illegitimate and/or challenged by other groups, ingroup members can be expected to defend their group’s social position by engaging in pro-ingroup and/or anti-outgroup behaviors.
- 2024 February 12, Sourav Banik, “Helldivers 2 devs issue apology after massive server issues”, in Dexerto[2]:
- “As such, the issue with login remains. If for any reason you get the ‘Failed to connect to server’ issue, it means that the maximum number of login requests for that particular minute is exceeded and/or that the servers are full and will require someone to log out before allowing new players in. As mentioned above, the increased capacity should require less retries to get in.”
Synonyms
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[edit]inclusive "or"
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