Delete rows based on array of strings

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Hi All,

I have a file with around 1000 rows and one of the fields is an account number. I have been provided with a few account numbers, when any of the account number appears in a row then the row has to be deleted.
Can we place the account numbers in an array and use awk or sed for this task?

Thanks,
Mc

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Hello mrcool4,

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Thanks,
R. Singh

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study manual of awk

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How about grep -v ? But - beware of false triggers.