Some databases (like the Modern Language Association International Bibliography) interpret adjacent words as a phrase; those that do not usually require you to put quotation marks or parentheses around the words of the phrase (for instance, the Fenwick online catalog, which requires quotation marks around the phrase). Using AND between the words of a phrase will identify records with that phrase in them, but will also identify records in which the two words appear anywhere in the record.
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