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Narrow your search

The next step is to combine your ideas; use AND to do this.

Using the example used earlier in ‘Define your keywords’:
air pollution or atmospheric pollution (Set 1) AND (car* or automobile*) (Set 2)

The AND logic narrows your search to include all the ideas you have specified.

diagram showing how the AND logic narrows your search

Figure 2: diagram showing how the AND logic narrows your search
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