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Order of Precedence Rules

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The Boolean and proximity operators follow conventional precedence rules. The order of precedence is the following.

  1. NOT
  2. AND and NEAR
  3. OR

The proximity operator has the same precedence as AND. After precedence rules are applied, operators are processed left to right. You can add parentheses to nest expressions within a query to explicitly specify the precedence. Expressions within parentheses are evaluated first.