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Begin Research: Using Truncation

Using Truncation

Vege*

Vegetable  Vegetarian  Vegetation   Vegetables  Vegetarians

Shorten the word to its root and add the truncation symbol.

This will retrieve all similar, singular, and plural forms of the root word “Vege.”

Truncation can save time and expand your search to include related words.

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