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If you have read through the tutorial about Boolean Searching, note that searching CQ also allows for Boolean searches:

AND
children and divorce [this search will look for both words in the document]
  children divorce [will automatically "and" the words together even though "and" was not typed in]
OR
 Clinton or Bush [this search will look for reports that have either names mentioned]
NOT
 Clinton not Bush [search looks for reports with Clinton mentioned but not Bush]

 

Other Search Commands:

PHRASE - to find words in exact sequence
 "global warming" [using quotation marks, this search looks for reports with global warming side-by-side]
TRUNCATION
 work* [the * after work looks for work, working, workable in the reports]
FINDING WORDS WITHIN X NUMBER OF WORDS OF EACH OTHER
 electoral w/10 college [using w and then a /, will find the words electoral and college within 10 words of each other]
? CHARACTER IN A WORD
 wom?n [finds woman, women in the reports]

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