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Default Searching Text that contains particular WORDS.

Text in cell A1 " the quick brown fox"
Text in cel A2 " June is here"
Text in cell A3 " Today is Monday" and so on until row A55000.
I have a spreadsheet with thousands of lines but some lines of text repeats
as above. How do I write one IF statement that searches for one of three
words such as "brown", "here" and "Monday" and then returns the keyword that
I am looking for. This way, I can quickly filter on all lines that have the
word Monday or the word June etc..I know I can use
=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(.......but help me to understand how to write 3 criteria
or more in one statement...right now I can only write one criteria ie
=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("JUNE",A2)),"JUNE"
 
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