Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) provides fulltext to news, business and legal information. Newspapers date back to the 1970's. Please Note: The Washington Post is no longer included in Nexis Uni.The National Newspapers Core database includes the Washington Post.
Use the same search strategies:
quotes around phrases
* for truncation
and / or
In addition, since you are searching the fulltext, you might need to bring the words closer together:
w/# = "food desert*" w/5 "grocery store*" = there can only be 5 words between food deserts and grocery stores
/s = same sentence
/p = same paragraph
Example search: purple line and gentrification
Notice in results - limit by publication type, timeline, sources
For National Newspapers Core:
1. Click on Advanced Search (upper left)
2. Change the search field from Anywhere to either Anywhere except Full Text - NOFT or Abstract - AB