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•Retrieve all words with a common string of letters.
Wild cards (*) replace any combination of letters or lack thereof.
•Broadens search
•Commonly used for related word roots.
–So pyelotom* will retrieve pyelotomy and pyelotomies, as well as pyelotomia, pyelotomized, and pyelotomography. Using NOT can eliminate these common but unwanted terms.
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