PostgreSQL Reverse LIKE

Question

I need to test if any part of a column value is in a given string, instead of whether the string is part of a column value. For instance:

This way, I can find if any

Answer 1

This query:

SELECT 
regexp_split_to_table(
  'The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t', 
  '\s' );

gives a following result:

| regexp_split_to_table |
|-----------------------|
|                   The |
|                 ships |
|                  hung |
|                    in |
|                   the |
|                   sky |
|                    in |
|                  much |
|                   the |
|                  same |
|                   way |
|                  that |
|                bricks |
|                 don’t |

Now just do a semijoin against a result of this query to get desired results

SELECT * FROM table t
WHERE EXISTS (
   SELECT * FROM (
      SELECT 
    regexp_split_to_table(
      'The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t', 
      '\s' ) x
   ) x
   WHERE t.column LIKE '%'|| x.x || '%'
)