How can I search on a list of values using Solr/Lucene?

Question

Given the following query:

(field:value1 OR field:value2 OR field:value3 OR ... OR field:value50)

Can this be broken down into something le

Answer 1

Use

field:(value1 value2 value3)

or if your default operator is AND then use

field:(value1 OR value2 OR value3)