Avoid Natural Language
Use Quotation Marks Around Phrases
Use the Advanced Search
Use Limiters Provided by the Database to Narrow/Focus Your Results
Use Boolean Operators
Exact match: "search"
If you're looking for an exact phrase, use quotation marks.
For example: "let them eat cake"
Site-specific: site:
Put site: in front of a website or domain if you want to get results from only a specific site or domain.
For example: recipes site:nytimes.com or climate change site:.gov
Exclusion: -search
Put a minus sign/hyphen in front of a word you want excluded from your search results. This is helpful if your search term has multiple meanings
For example: inception -film
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