# Using Double Quotes for exact matching of words and phrases

Using double quotes “” will find an exact word or phrase and disables stemming.

* Wildcards – both \* and ? are ignored when using quotes
* Within phrases in quotes AND, OR, NOT are treated as words which are part of the search expression, not Boolean operators.
* Proximity Operators are ignored within quotes


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