doctorate AND nausea

both doctorate and nausea

doctorate "and" nausea

the phrase doctorate and nausea

"doctorate and nausea"

the phrase doctorate and nausea

masters OR doctorate AND nausea

masters, or the combination of doctorate and nausea

masters OR (doctorate AND nausea)

masters, or the combination of doctorate and nausea

(masters OR doctorate) AND nausea

either masters or doctorate, and nausea

masters OR doctorate NOT nausea

either masters or doctorate, but not nausea

?

Matches any single alphanumeric character.

apple?

apples or applet

*

Matches zero or more alphanumeric characters. Avoid using the asterisk as the first character in a search string. An asterisk is ignored in a set, ([]) or an alternative pattern ({}).

app*ed

Appleseed, applied, appropriated, and so on

[ ]

Matches any one of the characters in the brackets. Square brackets indicate an implied OR.

<WILDCARD> 'sl[iau]m'

slim, slam, or slum

{ }

Matches any one of a set of patterns separated by a comma,

<WILDCARD> 'hoist{s,ing,ed}'

hoists, hoisting, or hoisted

^

Matches any character not in the set.

<WILDCARD>'sl[^ia]m'

slum, but not slim or slam

-

Specifies a range for a single character in a set.

<WILDCARD> 'c[a-r]t'

cat, cot, but not cut (that is, every word beginning with c, ending with t, and containing any single letter from a to r)