How do I make a script to find/change many in one go

I have a long list of words that I do a find/change to avoid breaks and keep with the next word. Words like Dr. Mr. Mrs. :
Is there an easy way to put all the words and symbols that I want to change into one script to save doing each one at a time?

1) Free solution: FindChangeByList.jsx
(in \Scripts\Scripts Panel\Samples\JavaScript)
2) Better and very flexible solution: Multi-Find/Change
http://www.automatication.com/index.php?id=12
@+
Marc

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made by Uwe
I change it into this, aim to make a mulit items of find-change only on master
//==============================================================================
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app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "USA";
//Do the search on "all open document" level
//That will return an array of arrays:
var myTarget = myDocuments.findGrep();
//Flattening the myTarget array:
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 flattenedFoundArray = flattenedFoundArray.concat(myTarget[n]);
//Change contents of found texts in flattened array:
for(var n=flattenedFoundArray.length-1;n>=0;n--){
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only what I can do is repeat and repeat again
is that another perfect solution to do that?
thanks
Teetan

Try this,
findChange("USA", "CHINA");
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