# How to do a negated search, excluding specific terms?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-do-a-negated-search-excluding-specific-terms/135341>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 7, 2019, 10:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-do-a-negated-search-excluding-specific-terms/135341 "2019-12-07T10:08:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![hannes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f0a364/32.png) [@hannes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hannes)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-do-a-negated-search-excluding-specific-terms/135341/4 "2019-12-09T19:28:48Z")

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Oh, that explains my struggles. Thanks for updating the topic of that thread, this will help other’s who look for this functionality.

Would be OK and in any way useful if I added a feature request in [Feature - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/c/feature/2)?

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