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Proximity searching
 
The operators for this type of search are "near" and "within"

Use NEAR (or the character ~) to specify words you want to appear close to each other in any field. It will retrieve records that are within ten words of each other in the same field. If the words occur further apart than ten words, they will not appear in your search results.

Use WITHIN in the same way as "near", but here you can specify within how many words you want the search terms to appear. Type the number after the word "within".

If you want to use the operators as search terms, enclose them in double quotes.
Examples
  • fractal near geometry      OR USE     fractal ~ geometry
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  • sports near medicine      OR USE     sports ~ medicine
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  • fractal within 3 geometry
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  • sports within 4 medicine
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  • "within" and without - this will do the search as two words