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Efficient multiple substrings search

I have many substrings(2-5 words each) which I would like to search in some text of about 40-50 words length. What is the most efficient way to flag matching substrings. Currently I am simply using: ...
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Most Pythonic way to remove first match of potential leading strings?

This is a bit difficult to describe, but I'll do my best. In Python, I can use string.startswith(tuple) to test for multiple matches. But startswith only returns a boolean answer, whether or not it ...
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