Academic Universe

Truncation and Plurals

Use the following characters to widen the scope of your search.

• The asterisk (*) takes the place of one letter:
  e.g., cris*s retrieves both crisis and crises
  bank*** retrieves bank, banks, banker or banking, but not bankrupt, since it has four letters after the root word bank

• The exclamation point (!) takes the place of an infinite number of letters at the end of a word:
  e.g., acqui! Retrieves acquire, acquired, acquitted, acquisition, acquiesce, etc.

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4. Use proximity limiters to decrease the number of hits

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