# Using AND and OR terms with multi-match?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-and-and-or-terms-with-multi-match/17853
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 2, 2014, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-and-and-or-terms-with-multi-match/17853 "2014-06-02T09:43:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@krosenvold](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/krosenvold)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2014, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-and-and-or-terms-with-multi-match/17853/1 "2014-06-02T09:43:51Z")
"Fixing" the "to be or not to be" stop word problem with multi-match, has
the very undesirable effect of breaking user-entered AND and OR terms
directly in the query string. Our users would really like both; is there a
way to accomplish this ?
Kristian
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-and-and-or-terms-with-multi-match/17853/2 "2017-07-06T01:25:16Z")