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The EDGAR full-text search page did not print a price, a credit, or an account gate on 18 Oct 2026. The JSON index responded without a key from this network. SEC filing pages are public. Do not copy a vendor's research-terminal price onto EDGAR. The 10,000 line is a result count, and the JSON relation gte means that response is capped. Neither number is a fee. If you later use a commercial EDGAR redistributor, cite that firm's rate card separately. This listing's price sentence is that the SEC search opened without one.

The full-text search lives at sec.gov/edgar/search. The page opened on 18 Oct 2026 calls it the new EDGAR advanced search and says it gives access to the full text of electronic filings since 2001. The form takes a document word or phrase, a company name, ticker, or CIK, a filing category, and a filed-date range. The results view for the quoted word TESCO, custom dates 1 Jan 2024 through 18 Oct 2026, printed 10,000 search results and offered refine-by entity, form, and principal executive offices. The first visible row was form 6-K, filed 2024-02-16, reporting for Barclays PLC, with the file description ACQUISITION OF TESCO'S RETAIL BANKING BUSINESS.

• Since 2001, on the form. The search page says the full text of electronic filings since 2001. That sentence is the page's scope line.
• 10,000 is a capped header. The HTML said 10,000 search results for quoted TESCO. The JSON said value 10000 and relation gte.
• The first row was a 6-K. Barclays PLC, filed 2024-02-16, file description about acquiring Tesco's retail banking business.

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   Put the phrase in quotes when you mean the word, and set the filed-date range.

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   Open the document named on the row before you quote it.

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   Write whether your count came from the HTML header or the JSON relation.

• You need filings that mention a company, not the company's own annual report. On 18 Oct 2026 a quoted search for TESCO, filed dates 2024-01-01 through 2026-10-18, put a Barclays PLC 6-K at the top, filed 2024-02-16, about acquiring Tesco's retail banking business. The filer on the row is Barclays. Open that document before you attribute the deal.
• A memo says the search returned exactly 10,000 filings. The HTML header said 10,000 search results. The JSON body said hits.total.value 10000 and relation gte. Those are not the same claim. Write which one you opened, and write the date range. This listing did not page past the cap.
• Someone wants EDGAR to stand in for a UK company profile. The form says electronic filings since 2001. It does not say it is Companies House, and it does not issue an LEI. A 6-K is the filer's document. Quote the CIK and the file number from the row you opened, which for the first hit were 0000312069 and 001-09246.

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The case where the first result is easy to over-read.

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Titled sources. These public pages are what the quotes on this listing come from.