# Exact match with query\_string without stemming

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-match-with-query-string-without-stemming/37244>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 15, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-match-with-query-string-without-stemming/37244 "2015-12-15T14:26:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Imran\_Azad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/imran_azad/32/4394_2.png) [@Imran\_Azad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Imran_Azad)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-match-with-query-string-without-stemming/37244/1 "2015-12-15T14:26:51Z")

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How can I do an exact match with the query\_string that excludes stemmed words. For example say I search for:

"transient ischaemic attack" it shouldn't bring back "transient ischaemic attacks", it should only bring back "transient ischaemic attack’’ however at the same time I'd still like to be able to use stemming for non-phrases searches such as "attack" which should bring back "attack" and "attacks"

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-match-with-query-string-without-stemming/37244/2 "2017-07-05T23:30:53Z")

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