Google-search – How to search a specific word on Google at the same time avoiding it in a phrase

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This is my first post here, so Hi! and don't hesitate to migrate my question to anywhere else, wherever it might be more appropriate

To better understand my question, here is an example –

I want to search for all occurrences of the term peanut on the Wikipedia avoiding all the occurrences of peanut butter. Here I can use double quotes for peanut and site:XYZ , but using the minus '-' symbol for the phrase doesn't work (I am guessing because of the basic contradiction that I want peanut and not want it at the same time, maybe).

Is there a way to overcome this?

Best Answer

You don't actually articulate your search phrase, but this seems to work for me when googling:

peanut -"peanut butter" site:en.wikipedia.org

EDIT: search result

I opened the top seven pages and ran a search on 'peanut butter' with no success.

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