Windows 11 File Explorer Search treating spaces as "or" instead of "and"...sort of. | Microsoft Community Hub (opens in new tab)

I've recently been experiencing some baffling behavior when searching with Windows 11 File Explorer, and wanted to check whether there's an underlying setting or even a known bug causing it. Basically, searching for two partial terms returns results containing both terms as expected, but as soon as a term forms a complete word from the filename of any file in the folder (defined by separation with spaces or underscores), every result including that term is included. Like, say I'm searching fo...

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