I'm also an idiot ...
Something else, the "or" output is occurring because the exception "the" 
matches "other " first so "other" becomes "or" minus the "the"...

So heres what I did ...

$search = array( '/\bthe\b/', '/\bother\b/', '/\bthat\b/', '/\ba\b/' );
$string = 'The other lady that laughed';

if( count( $search ) > 0 ) {
    foreach( $search as $exceptionPhrase ) {
      $string = preg_replace( strtolower($exceptionPhrase), '', 
strtolower($string)); 

    }
    $retval = trim( $string );

}
echo 'Retval: ' . $retval . '<br>';

And got 
lady laughed
In the matches ex. "/\bthe\b/" the \b mean word boundry so 
it matches only the whole word...
-David

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