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  • surrealism AND "Salvador Dali"
  • "baroque architecture" AND oval

Search for a Specific Phrase

Put quotations around a group of words like "baroque architecture" to retrieve results with that exact wording.

 

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Use the word OR (in all-caps) between your search terms. 

  • 19th century OR nineteenth century
  • realise OR realize

Use an * at the end of a word to search for all forms of that word. 

  • educat* will return results for education, educator, educated, educating;etc.
  • environment* will also return results for environmentalism and environmentalist

An * can also be used to replace a character in a word.

  • wom*n will search for women and woman

 

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Use the word NOT (in all-caps) between your search terms.

  • UT NOT Tennessee
  • advertisement NOT magazine

Try grouping the above strategies in a single search: 

  • (children OR adolescents) AND disability AND (19th century OR nineteenth century)

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Find Newspapers

Newspapers can be helpful in your research about your hometowns. I added a few newspaper databases here that you might be interested in, but if you would like to see more, click the Newspaper Databases link below for other options.

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