Be sure to type "and" and all other connectors in lower case. Any connector entered in upper case will be treated as a search term, not a connector, and your results will not be what you expect.
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OPERATOR |
EXAMPLE |
DESCRIPTION |
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and |
budget and deficit |
Finds words that are far apart from one another or in different sections |
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atleastx |
atleast10(cercla) |
Requires that a term or terms appear "at least" x times in a document |
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or, (space) |
ship or vessel or boat |
Finds documents that contain either or both of the words or phrases linked by or |
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and not |
capital and not gains |
Finds documents in which a search word or phrase is to be excluded |
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w/n, near/n, /n |
vicious w/3 dog |
Finds documents in which the first word appears within "n" words of the second one |
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pre/n, onear/n |
overtime pre/3 compensation |
Finds documents in which the first word precedes the second by not more than "n" words |
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w/para |
retirement w/para benefit |
Finds documents with search words that appear within the same paragraph, or within approximately 50 words of each other |
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w/sent |
earnings w/sent taxation |
Finds documents with search words that appear within the same sentence, or within approximately 15 words of each other |
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w/seg |
unreported w/seg income |
Finds documents in which your search terms appear in the same segment (headline, body, etc.), or within approximately 100 words of each other |
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!, * |
employ! |
Finds a root word plus all the words made by adding letters to the end of it |
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? |
wom?n |
Finds variations of a word by replacing characters anywhere in the word, except the first character |