PARAGRAPH

Selects documents that include all of the search elements you specify within a paragraph. Valid search elements are two or more words or phrases. You can specify search elements in a sequential or a random order. Documents are retrieved only if the search elements appear in the same paragraph.

To retrieve relevance-ranked documents that contain stemmed variations of the word "drug" and the phrase "cancer treatment" in the same paragraph, you can enter the following:

drug <PARAGRAPH> cancer treatment
<PARAGRAPH> (drug, cancer treatment)

To search for three or more words or phrases, you must use the PARAGRAPH operator between each word or phrase.

You can use the PARAGRAPH operator with the ORDER modifier to perform ordered proximity searches.