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Try using it with the -e flag, it gives exact matches for each space-separated word you type, ignoring order and case. This is usually the most useful way to search in my experience. For example, if I'm searching through my filesystem I can give it "pdf pascal", it will give me all the Pascal-related PDF files. But it won't match paths like this just because the letters appear throughout the string:

  ~/books_and_papers/causal_inference.pdf
              ^^   ^ ^^   ^           ^^^


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