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Default Process a row if a string search finds certain words from a list

Hello!
I have a list of real estate ads (text) in a column (column B). It has over
300 rows. I want to delete every row that has certain pre-defined words in
the ad text; eg. realtor, property, management, etc. The list of words I
would like to search for is a variable list that I may add to over time. So
I'm thinking of having a separate sheet ("'exclusions") that has all the
words i want to look for in its column A.

So I would like to have a macro that does the following (below is in pseudo
code):

for each word in "exclusions"(a:a) do
for i= 1 to lastrow do
if cell B(i) contains word then
delete row
end if
end for

Am I making sense? Again, the ad text is of variable length, and i'm
looking to find certain words based on a list located in another sheet that
may change.

Thanks very much in advance for any/all help! :)