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Is there a way to search for closed questions like you can search for a particular tag? Searching for the word 'closed' yields open questions and I'm not sure catches all the questions with "[closed]" in title. Searching for "[closed]" returns nothing leading me to believe closed is a meta-tag of some sort. Can it be searched for directly?

The answer was provided by @Fortiter and @Luke. Thank you. To find closed questions, search for

closed:1

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Try searching for closed:1. Information obtained from Find all questions on the Stack Exchange network that have been closed

I have no idea what the value :1 represents; but it seems to work.

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    'closed:1' is simply a convention to indicate a switch; that is to say "closed=yes" and 'closed:0' would indicate questions that are not closed. No, it's not the most obvious nomenclature... designed primarily by technical folks, but so are most power user functions.
    – Robert Cartaino
    Commented Oct 30, 2012 at 15:41
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Type @ into the search bar. It will give you a list of advanced search options. In it, we find many entries. Here is the most relevant:

questions that have been closed                      closed:1 apples oranges

(or not)                                                              closed:0 apples oranges

Play around with it. It is very helpful for narrowing down search results. I found this by accident one day when I had nothing better to do with my time (okay, maybe I did). But, it has helped me out quite a bit. Especially for gathering statistics.

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