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content/billing/managing-billing-for-github-copilot/about-billing-for-github-copilot.md

@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ A free subscription for {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} is availab
 
 The {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_for_business %} subscription is available on a monthly cycle, and is billed at $19 per user per month. Billing for {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} in {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_cloud %} is processed at the end of each billing cycle.
 
-Billed users are calculated based on the number of {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} seats assigned at the beginning of a billing cycle, or assigned during the billing cycle. Any seat assigned part way through the billing cycle will be prorated based on the number of days remaining in the cycle. Any seat assignment removed during a billing cycle will take effect from the beginning of the next cycle.
+Billed users are calculated based on the number of assigned {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} seats. Any seat assigned part way through the billing cycle will be prorated based on the number of days remaining in the cycle. Any seat assignment removed during a billing cycle will take effect from the beginning of the next cycle.
 
 Seat assignment for {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} in {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_cloud %} is managed by admins of organizations which have been granted access to {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} at the enterprise level. If you are a member of multiple organizations under the same enterprise, you can be assigned {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} seats in more than one organization, but your enterprise will only be billed once. For more information, see "[Configuring {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} settings in your organization](/enterprise-cloud@latest/copilot/configuring-github-copilot/configuring-github-copilot-settings-in-your-organization)."
 
 Policy settings and the usage overview for {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} in {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_cloud %} are available at the enterprise level. For more information, see "[Enforcing policies for {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} in your enterprise](/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/policies/enforcing-policies-for-your-enterprise/enforcing-policies-for-github-copilot-in-your-enterprise)" and "[Viewing your {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} usage](/enterprise-cloud@latest/billing/managing-billing-for-github-copilot/viewing-your-github-copilot-usage)."
 
-{% endif %}
+{% endif %}

content/search-github/searching-on-github/searching-issues-and-pull-requests.md

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ You can search for issues and pull requests globally across all of {% data varia
   - This article contains example searches on the {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}.com website, but you can use the same search filters on {% data variables.location.product_location %}.{% endif %}
   - For a list of search syntaxes that you can add to any search qualifier to further improve your results, see "[Understanding the search syntax](/search-github/getting-started-with-searching-on-github/understanding-the-search-syntax)".
   - Use quotations around multi-word search terms. For example, if you want to search for issues with the label "In progress," you'd search for `label:"in progress"`. Search is not case sensitive.
+  - Use a minus (hyphen) symbol to exclude results that match a qualifier. For example, to ignore issues created by the "octocat" user, you'd use `-author:octocat` in your search.
   - {% data reusables.search.search_issues_and_pull_requests_shortcut %}
 
   {% endtip %}
@@ -102,6 +103,7 @@ The `author` qualifier finds issues and pull requests created by a certain user
 | <code>author:<em>USERNAME</em></code> | [**cool author:gjtorikian**](https://github.com/search?q=cool+author%3Agjtorikian&type=Issues) matches issues and pull requests with the word "cool" that were created by @gjtorikian.
 | | [**bootstrap in:body author:mdo**](https://github.com/search?q=bootstrap+in%3Abody+author%3Amdo&type=Issues) matches issues written by @mdo that contain the word "bootstrap" in the body.
 | <code>author:app/<em>USERNAME</em></code> | [**author:app/robot**](https://github.com/search?q=author%3Aapp%2Frobot&type=Issues) matches issues created by the integration account named "robot."
+|  | [**-author:app/robot**](https://github.com/search?q=-author%3Aapp%2Frobot&type=Issues) matches issues created by any user other than the integration account named "robot." The minus sign, or dash character (<code>-</code>) before the qualifier signifies a logical NOT for the qualifier in the search query.
 
 ## Search by assignee