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Is case insensitive

ABraHaM

abraham, ABRAHAM, Abraham

Uses stemming

bow

bow, bowing, bowed, bows

Tolerates special characters

Allāh

Allāh, Allah

Trims punctuation

1:1

1

We support

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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