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When “or” should be an “and”
When “or” should be an “and”

When “or” should be an “and”

ORIGINAL:

Items in AbcDB are similar in many ways to rows, records, or tuples in other database systems. 

BETTER:

Items in AbcDB are similar in many ways to rows, records, and tuples in other database systems. 

EXPLANATION:

“And” is a better choice than “or”. The sentence is rather generic, it doesn’t mention specific “other database systems”.

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