# App search - Multi term synonyms

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-multi-term-synonyms/313775>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-app-search\
**Created:** [September 6, 2022, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-multi-term-synonyms/313775 "2022-09-06T10:01:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Gerardo\_Zenobi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gerardo_zenobi/32/106790_2.png) [@Gerardo\_Zenobi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gerardo_Zenobi)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-multi-term-synonyms/313775/1 "2022-09-06T10:01:30Z")

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Hi there 👋

I got the impression that Multi term synonyms are not currently supported by **App Search**? Or is there a special way of configuring this ?

My example use case: `ai` =\> `machine learning`

This was matching documents that would have only `learning` and I would like only to match documents with the phrase rather `machine learning` if we type `ai`.

Thanks in advance.

Gerardo.

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**Author:** ![Sean\_Story](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sean_story/32/69987_2.png) [@Sean\_Story](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sean_Story)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-multi-term-synonyms/313775/2 "2022-09-07T20:33:03Z")

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Hi @Gerardo_Zenobi,

Thanks for raising this! I've taken a look, and was easily able to reproduce the behavior you're describing. I'll file an issue, so that we can better address this in the future (either by supporting mulit-token synonyms, or by preventing you from adding them and documenting why).

Thanks again for the report!

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**Author:** ![Gerardo\_Zenobi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gerardo_zenobi/32/106790_2.png) [@Gerardo\_Zenobi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gerardo_Zenobi)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-multi-term-synonyms/313775/3 "2022-09-08T07:53:18Z")

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Thanks for the quick response @Sean_Story 👍

Would you be able to keep me posted on this through this thread?

Cheers.

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**Author:** ![Sean\_Story](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sean_story/32/69987_2.png) [@Sean\_Story](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sean_Story)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-multi-term-synonyms/313775/4 "2022-09-08T14:57:23Z")

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I can (and will) try to remember, but a more reliable method is to watch for our release announcements and to read the Enterprise Search release notes. These discuss threads auto-close after 30 days of inactivity, and I'm unsure if I have the ability to re-open them if the fix takes that long to get in.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-multi-term-synonyms/313775/5 "2022-10-06T14:58:02Z")

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