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Another technique that you can use to search more efficiently is to truncate key words so that articles containing words in the same word family are also listed in your search result. For example, if you are looking for articles about banking crises, you can truncate the word banking by typing a * after the root bank: bank*. This will ensure that articles containing the words bank, banks, bank’s and banking will appear in your search results.

Glossary

truncate To truncate something is to shorten it.

Exercise 8

Truncate one word in each of the phrases 1–3. What additional words would be included in the search?

1 environmental impact

2 online social networking

3 form friendships