What is Phrase Searching?
Last Updated: Jul 10, 2025     Views: 1308

Phrase searching is a search technique designed to limit search results to records in which the desired phrase occurs. 

Phrase searching tells the database to focus solely on retrieving records where your terms appear together as a phrase, excluding all individual occurrences of the separate words. 

In most databases, enclosing your search phrase in quotation marks ("phrase search example") functions as the search command for phrase searching. This also usually works for other searches, such as Google and Google Scholar. 

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