# How does the intervals query resolve the need for first manually breaking up a search text into phrases?

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**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 19, 2020, 8:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-the-intervals-query-resolve-the-need-for-first-manually-breaking-up-a-search-text-into-phrases/233274 "2020-05-19T08:21:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![gideongrossman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gideongrossman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gideongrossman)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 8:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-the-intervals-query-resolve-the-need-for-first-manually-breaking-up-a-search-text-into-phrases/233274/1 "2020-05-19T08:21:36Z")

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How does the interval query handle the issue described here? [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/16796](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/16796) Don't we still need to break up our search text into phrases before passing them into the intervals query?

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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:** [June 16, 2020, 8:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-the-intervals-query-resolve-the-need-for-first-manually-breaking-up-a-search-text-into-phrases/233274/2 "2020-06-16T08:24:31Z")

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Closed on June 16, 2020, 8:24am UTC

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