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is the incremental search facility that highlights matching text as characters are typed. isearch-forward and isearch-backward support searching characters, strings, and regexp.

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Search for either of two words using isearch

C-M-s to invoke isearch-forward-regexp then type aaa\|bbb, where aaa is your first word and bbb is your second. Alternatives, just C-s to invoke isearch, then press M-r to toggle to regex. …
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