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Searching for Compound Words

Compound words such as “T-Bill” can be given with or without the hyphen. Likewise, words with apostrophes, such as, “McDonald's”, may be given with or without the apostrophe. The hyphen and apostrophe characters are removed from the compound search keyword before it is used for searching. (Remember that compound words in news headlines are also collapsed to form indexable keywords in the database.)