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  1. import re
  2. l = ["the","snow","ball","snowball","is","cold"]
  3. pattern = "|".join(sorted(l, key=len, reverse=True))
  4. sentence = "thesnowballisverycold"
  5. print( re.findall(pattern, sentence) )
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['the', 'snowball', 'is', 'cold']
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Python 3 (python  3.9.5)
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