Advanced Search Query Guide

Single character wildcard?

wom?n works to match things like "women" or "woman"

Multiple character wildcard

wom*n or wom* works to match things like "women" or "woman"

Hyphens

"two-spirit" needs to be in double quotes

AND/OR capitalization

Search titles only

specify the column by searching something like article_title: biden

Searching for an exact phrase

use double quotes to match an exact phrase like "unhoused person"

Regular expressions

"fuzzy" queries

query for Biden~ to match any slight mispellings of his name ("Bidan", "Bidden", etc)

Proximity search

"woman killed"~10 will find stories where those words are within 10 words of each other

Default search

terms next to each other without boolean operators are assumed to be AND'd (monkey banana is monkey AND banana)

Negation

prefix the term with NOT or - to indicate you want matches that do not include the term; such as gaza NOT hamas

Language filter

add a language:en clause with the two-letter code (ISO 639-1)