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I don't know the exact word for this case, but sometimes you want the surrounding information to what you're looking for. Often I skim documentations, books, articles,... not in search for a specific answer but to get the overview of what it discusses. I don't need a summary of a table of contents. But it's a very good tool for quickly locating some specific information. Something like

  Language Implementation Patterns (the book) |> Analyzing Languages (the part) |> Tracking and Identifying Program Symbols (the chapter) |> Resolving Symbols (the section)
or

  Unit Testing: Principles, Practices,and Patterns (the book) |> Making your tests work for you (the part) |> Mocks and test fragility (the chapter) |> The relationship between mocks and test fragility (the section) |> Intra-system vs. inter-system communications
or

  Python 3.13.3 Documentation (docs.python.org) |> The Python Standard Library |> Text Processing Services |> string


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