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Truncation and Wildcards

When added to the stem of a word, a truncation symbol will find that stem plus anything that comes after it. The symbol used to truncate a word depends upon the index, database, or Web search engine you are using.

psychol? will return records on psychology, psychological, psychologist.
! is used as the truncation symbol, for example, in Science Direct.
environ* will return records on environment, environments, environmental.
* is used as the truncation symbol in The EBSCO Indexes and Wilson Omnifile.
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