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Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" or "apples" or "orange" or "oranges."
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Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" and the word "orange."
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| paragraph |
a part of something written made up of one or more sentences that develop a certain idea. A paragraph begins on a new line which is usually indented from the other lines. |
| summarize |
If you summarize things you have already discussed in some detail, you talk about them again but say only the most important things about them this time. Let's say your textbook gives two pages of information about some topic. Usually, in the last paragraph, the writers summarize the information so that students understand the most important things that were said in the whole two pages. |
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