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United States supreme court
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Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk. Use a single asterisk * to truncate from 1-5 characters. Use a double asterisk ** for open-ended truncat ion.

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(annotated bibliography) and alzheimer*
(alaska or canada) and (adventure or vacation)
History [And] Naples or Napoli [And] Borgia or Alexander

Proximity Use "near" to specify words close to each other, in any order. Use "within #" to specify terms which occur within # words of each other in the record. Example :
California near university
america within 3 econom*
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[Author] Piaget