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Boolean Operators (and, or, not)




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Danger Warning

Sometimes you want to search two or more words as a phrase, such as:

Many databases will automatically keep the words together (or adjacent) as a phrase.

  Search for a phrase i.e. 2 or more words that are adjacent and in the exact order
death penalty
death penalty

Other databases may search all the terms with "implied and" or "implies or."

  Search for records containing both (all) terms
death penalty
death
and depletion
This is called "implied AND."

Remember, check when in doubt.