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>When you work with ANDs and ORs in one condition you must have brackets ALWAYS.
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Nope. Just remember operator precedence ;-)
While the bracketed code due to negation IS more readable,
it still has the basic fault of toooooo much code.

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>m.TheWord3 $ lcTEXT AND ! (m.TheWord3 == m.TheWord1 OR m.TheWord3 == m.TheWord2)
>...
> m.TheWord4 $ lcTEXT AND ! (m.TheWord4 == m.TheWord1 OR m.TheWord4 == m.TheWord2 OR m.TheWord4 == m.TheWord3)
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All is needed is:
call to function to add to exclusion list [cursor, array, string]
call to scan the table with a check fitting for exclusion list
- seek in cursor 
- ascan(,,) in excact mode
- $ in string with special begin/end chars as markers

and the list can merrily grow to many exclusion words without adding a new comparison in each scan.

regards

thomas