Asterisk: *

child* retrieves records with "child", "children", "childbirth", "childbearing", "childish", and so forth.

Question mark: ?

Put phrases in quotation marks.

Default: If no search operators are detected, then Nexis Uni defautls to natural language searching (proprietary, undefined algorithm).

"north pole" retrieves only records in which the words "north" and "pole" appear next to each other, in that exact order.

lincoln AND douglas retrieves only records that contain both "lincoln" and "douglas".

lincoln OR douglas retrieves records that contain either "lincoln" or "douglas".

W/S terms must appear in same sentence (technically: within approximately 25 words of one another).

W/P terms must be in same paragraph (technically: within approximately 75 words of one another).

W/n terms must appear within n words of one another in any order;

Pre/n terms must appear within n words in the specified order.

henry W/2 thoreau retrieves "henry thoreau", "henry david thoreau", and "thoreau, henry david".

henry Pre/2 thoreau retrieves only "henry thoreau" and "henry david thoreau".