Regex to find whole words

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.*\bEU\b.*

 public static void main(String[] args) {
       String regex = ".*\\bEU\\b.*";
       String text = "EU is an acronym for  EUROPE";
       //String text = "EULA should not match";


       if(text.matches(regex)) {
           System.out.println("It matches");
       } else {
           System.out.println("Doesn't match");
       }

    }

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