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AND
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Combines different search words
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silos AND permit
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“…”
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Use quotation marks to search on words together in the order they are written
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“climate change”
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OR
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Contains either of the search words
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assault OR injury
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NOT
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Contains the first word but excludes the second word
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taxation NOT estate
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w/n
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The first word must be located within a specified number of words of the second
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contempt w/5 court
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(…)
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Use parentheses when a search contains multiple types of Boolean operators
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contempt AND (radio OR television)
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? Wildcard
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Use a wildcard to search on a word with spelling variations
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Wom?n - Finds: woman, women
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! Truncation
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Also called stemming. Expands the search to include various word endings
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object* - Finds: object, objection, objecting, objected
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