How to negate specific word in regex?

A great way to do this is to use negative lookahead:

^(?!.*bar).*$

The negative lookahead construct is the pair of parentheses, with the opening parenthesis followed by a question mark and an exclamation point. Inside the lookahead [is any regex pattern].

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