To find pages without a particular term, put a – sign operator in front of the word in the query. The – sign indicates that you want to subtract or exclude pages that contain a specific term. Do not put a space between the – and the word, i.e.

• USE [ dolphins –football ]
• NOT [ dolphins  – football ]

So, to search for a twins support group in Minnesota, but not return pages relating to the Minnesota Twins baseball team:

• USE [ twins support group Minnesota –baseball ]
• NOT [ twins support group Minnesota ]

No pages containing the word “baseball” will be returned by the first query.

Find pages on “salsa” but not the dance nor dance classes.

• USE [ salsa –dance –class ]
• NOT [ salsa ]

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