# 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:** ![devnull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@devnull](https://meta.discourse.org/u/devnull)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-do-a-negated-search-excluding-specific-terms/135341/6 "2021-05-20T15:31:59Z")

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Is that feature to make a search without a specified word planned? I’m also needing that feature. I have topics that tell the people `[DONE] Title A`. Now I want to make sure that I can search for all topics of a user without the word DONE in the title of the topic.

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