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*

* Wildcard, “Zero to many chars,” 1 or more, anywhere in search term

?

? Wildcard, “One and only one char,” 1 or more, anywhere in search term

=

= Wildcard, “One and only one digit,” 1 or more, anywhere in search term

%

% Fuzzy, “Degree of wrongness,” 1 or more, anywhere in search term

#

# Phonic, “Sounds like,” 1 at beginning of search term

~

~ Stemming, “Forms of the word,” 1 at end of search term

AND/OR/NOT

AND/OR/NOT, Boolean, use between terms
(educat* or train*) AND (manag* or direct*)

w/#

w/#, acts as AND but within # words of each other

( )

( ) Parenthetical Control, use around terms to control order of operation

" "

“ “ Phrase, use quotes around a string of words to search for a phrase

#~~#

#~~# Numeric Range, searches for string of digits, not values
1999~~2004
12~~14 It would find this too: 14,000

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