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Is case insensitive
ABraHaM
abraham, ABRAHAM, Abraham
Uses stemming
bow
bow, bowing, bowed, bows
Tolerates special characters
AllÄh
AllÄh, Allah
Trims punctuation
1:1
1
Phrase searches
"1:1"
all items containing the exact rendering of 1:1
Boolean operators
AND
adam AND eve
all items containing both adam and eve
OR
adam OR eve
all items containing at least adam or eve
NOT
adam NOT eve
all items containing adam but not eve
Proximity searches
"adam eve"~3
all items containing adam and eve within 3 words of each other
Wildcard expressions
single character
jo?
job, joy
zero or more characters
jo*
jonah, john and journey
Fuzzy searches
grammer~
grammar
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