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EBSCOhost: Expand a Search

Consider the following search for articles relevant to senior citizens' access to affordable health care. The search was run from the EBSCOhost advanced search interface and consisted of three search terms connected with the "AND" connector -- senior citizens AND health care AND access. It retrieved only four results

Let's expand the search by including some synonyms for senior citizens. We'll use the "OR" connector to add elderly and aged to our search -- senior citizens OR elderly OR aged

See results below. By accounting for synonyms and linking them with the "OR" connector, we have significantly increased the number of articles we retrieved -- 4 with our initial search, and 175 with our expanded search.