title: Remove multiple elements from list using regex matching
body: <p>I have an excel workbook that has sheet names as Countries. Along with those sheets, there are additional sheets that I do not want to process. Hence I am trying to eliminate those sheets and keep only the sheets where sheet names are country names.</p>
  <p>Below is the code I am using and it is getting the job done:</p>
  <pre><code>all_sheets = xl.sheet_names  # see all sheet names
  
  entries_to_remove_1 = ['Information', 'Summary', 'Template', 'Source', 'BOW']
  entries_to_remove_2 = list(filter(lambda x: 'Annual' in x, all_sheets))
  entries_to_remove_3 = list(filter(lambda x: 'Quarterly' in x, all_sheets))
  entries_to_remove_4 = list(filter(lambda x: 'WIP' in x, all_sheets))
  
  entries_to_remove = entries_to_remove_1 + entries_to_remove_2 + entries_to_remove_3 + entries_to_remove_4
  
  entries_for_replacement = [i for i in all_sheets if i not in entries_to_remove]
  all_sheets = list(set(entries_for_replacement))
  all_sheets
  </code></pre>
  <p>Output:</p>
  <pre><code>['India', 'Brazil', 'Czech', 'Italy', 'Hungary', 'Poland']
  </code></pre>
  <p>Since I am using 4 statements just to gather the names of the sheets to be removed, I was hoping to find a more concise way to do the same task.</p>