Deleting Bulk Email from Gmail

With thousands of unread email in Gmail, it was time to clean house. But just how do you select more than one screen worth of email at a time in Gmail?

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As a product from Google, I should have known better – you use search. Yup, in the Gmail search bar, you do something like this:

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After the search is done, you can select all those emails using that checkbox above the email tabs then mass delete them.