Group several terms

How it works

Parentheses group words: subject:(dinner movie) applies subject: to both words, not just the first.

Examples

• subject:(dinner movie)Open in Gmail ↗

  Subject containing "dinner" and "movie".

What it does well

• An operator such as subject: applies to the whole group instead of only the first word.

What it does badly

• The help page gives a single example and says nothing about nested parentheses or their precedence with OR and AND.Not documented by Google · Gmail Help: search operators

See also

• subject:Restricts the search for a word or phrase to the message's subject line.
• OR{ }Keeps messages that match at least one of the criteria.
• ANDKeeps messages that match all of the criteria.