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NEXT to the word programming.
Use the optional limits to narrow your search by location, format, language or date.
For date limits enter a year into each box to search for multiple years. To limit the search to a single year, you only need to enter the year into the "from" box and can leave the "to" box empty.
Lower-case letters will find matches of capitalized words also. For example,
computer will find matches for computer, Computer
and COMPUTER.
You may use the Boolean operators AND and OR in your search string. For
example, you could type (heart OR cardiac) AND surgery to retrieve all
records having heart or cardiac in them, together with the
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Use the ? character to find matches that contain portions
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anthropology, archaeology, psychology, etc. The ? character
may also be used to find variant spellings. For example, alumi?m
will find both the American spelling, aluminum, and the British
spelling, aluminium.
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