Search and replace in powershell using wildcards

Hi
I'm trying to figure out how to replace a some random (ish) text, in a text string with a defined piece of text using Powershell.
The text I want to replace is always between the same two words but the actual text varies from device to device.
Lets say the text line is
Server this bit of text varies Language
I want to replace the text between "Server" and "Language" with "it will always say this"
I want to write something like this
replace('Server'*'Language','Server it will always say this Language')
so whatever is between Server and language is replaced with "it will always say this".
I realise I've not got the regular expression correct. Can anyone help?
Cheers
Alex

If you're replacing the line then you can replace all of the line with your new text. So for example you'd assign the line you want to a variable and replace it with a variable containing your new line.
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