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Wildcards and Truncation

Wildcards and Truncation:   Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk ('*') in place of other characters. The '*' wildcard may also be embedded in a search string. You may use '?' to replace a single character anywhere within a word.

Examples : environment*,  polic*, wom?n