Logical operators are the building blocks of conditional logic in programming, allowing you to combine or modify boolean conditions. They're like the glue that holds together your if-statements and while-loops, letting you express complex decision-making logic without having to write a novel's worth of code.

How to use it in a sentence

• I was debugging my code for hours, only to realize I had used the wrong logical operator in my if-statement - I felt like a complete noob, like I was still using MySpace.

• The PM kept asking me to add more and more edge cases to the user login flow, and my if-statement was starting to look like a Christmas tree of nested logical operators - I was tempted to just replace it all with a big "TODO: fix this later" comment and call it a day.

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