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Help - Wildcard Searches
To locate words, just type them in as you would in a word processor. Letter cases will be ignored.
Plurals and possessives or other forms of a particular word are automatically included in search results.
The wild-card character * (asterisk) may be used to match just the prefix of a word or to ignore the middle of something.
To locate a number of adjacent words in a specific order, surround them with " (double quotation) characters. Putting a - (hyphen) between words will also force order and one word proximity.
| Query | Finds |
|---|---|
| john | john, John |
| government | government, governments, governmental |
| "john public" | john public |
| web-browser | web browser, web-browser |
| John*Public | John Public, John Q. Public |
| 456*a*def | 1-456-789-ABCDEF |