Truncation and wildcards are techniques used to broaden search queries. Truncation involves using a symbol (often an asterisk *) to replace the end of a word, capturing all variations of that word. For example, "nurs*" will return results for nurse, nurses, nursing, etc. Wildcards, usually a question mark (?), replace a single character within a word. For example, "wom?n" will return results for both "woman" and "women."
