extract text between multiple char delimiters rather than a single char

Rather than using cut for example, is it possible and straight forward
enough to extract text between a given set of chars?

For example take the following string:

"I am a string with some words and symbols and it doesn't make much
sense."

What if I want to extract anything between the word "some" as a start
and "it" as an end point, so I want the string " words and symbols and
" extracted?

I'm still relatively new to unix, and I probably use the cut command a
lot more than other people who I guess will probably start using awk or
sed for string manipulation. Problem is I'm not that familiar with
either yet so I have consequently got very handy with cut, but it of
course is limited to just using 1 char as a delimiter.

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