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  1. Are there other words to describe your topic?
    • Identify synonyms or related concepts. Television and media are related concepts, as are stress and anxiety.
  2. Want to combine your synonyms into one search to save time and energy?
    • Combine like concepts with the word OR (e.g., media or television).
  3. Are there other forms of your word that you might also use?
    • Use truncation to retrieve variant forms of a word (e.g., the word television, truncated after the letter "s" [televis*] retrieves television, televisions, and televise).

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