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<?php $str = "The game start in a minute, remove all of the corks from these bottles in the cellar they're in"; $useless_words = ["the", "of", "or", "in", "a"]; var_dump( preg_replace('/(\s+)?\b(?:' . implode('|', $useless_words) . ')\b(?(1)|\s+)/i', '', $str) );
Output for 8.1.0 - 8.1.28, 8.2.0 - 8.2.19, 8.3.0 - 8.3.7
string(69) "game start minute, remove all corks from these bottles cellar they're"

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