A nurse is using a library database to search for information related to cancer. The nurse includes the words "some" and "many" in the search. The search engine would identify these words as:
A) Truncation.
B) Wildcard.
C) Stop words.
D) MeSH terms.

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Stop words are common words that a search engine is programmed to ignore, such as "the," "a," "some," and "many," because they usually don't add value to the search query.

A Nurse Is Using a Library Database to Search for Information