Searches: wild-cards, phrases

I know our Search function is ideosyncratic, but is there a way to do wild cards? ie, trichin* for trichina, trichinosis, trichinellosis, trichinmisspelled…?

Or to search for phrases, like “gas prices”?

Thanks in advance!

Exactly like that.

What about phrases or multiple words? I was going to open a thread to ask that exact question, but I’ll just jump on this one instead.

And what if one of the words you’re searching for is 4 letters or less… is that OK?

Phrases, no. Multiple words are implicity connected by “and”. You can specify “or” instead. If any of the words is too short (or too common), you’ll get a message to that effect and it won’t be used in the search.