Not all search engines or databases accept Proximity Operators so make sure to read the help screen for more advanced help. Proximity (aka positional) Operators are not really part of Boolean Logic, but like Boolean they help formulate search statements. S horting Manufactur* down to Man*, you would receive information about manufacturing, but you would also information about management, manuals, mankind, manipulation, and people named Manuel, etc. Manufactur* will search manufacturing, manufacturer, manufacture, manufactures. Remember not to shorten the search term too much. Thus, you should use only the root word in a search string, but also use a wildcard to indicate that you want articles with all other forms of the word in them. Example: ski? OR ski* - other words that might be used in an article about "ski" are skiing, skier, and skis. If you were to type skier, you would miss all the articles about skiing or people who like to ski. The * is for truncation or finding all of the various endings a word could have so a search for work * will find all of the words that start with work but have different endings such as work ing, work ed, work horse etc. Generally speaking the ? replaces a letter such as wom ?n will find wom en and wom an. (Note neither symbol can be the first character in your search term). Wild Card and Truncation symbols Searching using ? as a wildcard and * as a truncation symbol allows you to create searches where there are unknown characters, multiple spellings or various endings.
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