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• Find all of these wordsDouglas harbour

  Find items containing both words. You can also write Douglas AND harbour.

• Find an exact phrase"Peel Castle"

  Use quotation marks to find these words together, in this order, within an individual source section.

• Find either wordDouglas OR Peel

  Find items mentioning Douglas, Peel, or both. You can also use Douglas | Peel.

• Leave out a wordharbour -railway

  Find items mentioning harbour, but leave out any that mention railway. Put a minus sign directly before the word to exclude it.

• Leave out a phraseDouglas -"railway station"

  Find items mentioning Douglas, but leave out any containing the phrase “railway station”.

• Combine alternatives(Douglas OR Peel) harbour

  Find items mentioning harbour and at least one of Douglas or Peel. Brackets keep the alternatives together.

• Find different word endingsharbour*

  The asterisk stands for any ending, so this also finds words such as harbours and harbourmaster.

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  Choose Items to search preserved source groupings, or Individual sections to search each region separately. Content types and heading filters use source evidence. Word-gap wildcards are not available; use a trailing wildcard after at least three letters.

Write AND and OR in capital letters. When you combine them, AND is applied first; use brackets to make your meaning clear.

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