- Truncating
Are you looking for terms with many possible endings?
Truncating words lets you search for all words with the same word-stem. You often truncate with a “*”, but other variants do exist. Some search services have automatic truncating; see the help text that every search service offers.
Example:
Religio* gives you hits on religion, religious, religiosity.
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