# Any way to "OR" search terms?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-or-search-terms/53982>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** search\
**Created:** [2016年十二月8日 21:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-or-search-terms/53982 "2016-12-08T21:09:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Paul\_Vencill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Paul\_Vencill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Paul_Vencill)\
**Post date:** [2016年十二月8日 21:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-or-search-terms/53982/1 "2016-12-08T21:09:01Z")

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Seems like my discourse site is using a pretty aggressive “AND” semantics, such that if I have (for example) 5 documents which contain either ‘foo’ or ‘bar’, but only one which contains ‘foo bar’, and I search for ‘foo bar’ (no quotes) I get only the one page, where I’d like to see that one first, but then also see the others in some kind of descending order (relevance or recency or whatever). I can’t see a way through the Advanced Search page or otherwise to specify that the terms should be logically OR’d, however. Advice?

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2016年十二月8日 21:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-or-search-terms/53982/2 "2016-12-08T21:48:01Z")

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There is no way to do this at the current time.

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Vencill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Paul\_Vencill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Paul_Vencill)\
**Post date:** [2016年十二月8日 21:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-or-search-terms/53982/3 "2016-12-08T21:58:40Z")

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That’s unfortunate, but thanks for the quick response.

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**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Post date:** [2024年一月14日 23:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-or-search-terms/53982/4 "2024-01-14T23:46:00Z")

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