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Hi, issue with searching a set of strings in excel

In excel, I have data in column A and I need to search for set of strings in column A. I should get findings in column B.
Ex:
column A column B result
Apple no findings
Pen found pen
pen in the Book found pen,book
Cat no findings
House found house
Deer no findings
elephant house found elephant,house

I need to search pen,book,house,elephant in column A and in corresponding column I have to get found pen,found house.....

I can do this with if condition but the data that I have is huge and so taking lot of time for execution. can this be done with some inbuilt excel functions like search({"pen","house","...},A:A).....????

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