Thanks for the suggestions so far!<p>

<code>query-replace</code> does not seem to work across newlines (to my surprise).<p>

<code>foo[\s^J]bar</code> also does not work; I thought <code>\s-</code> was supposed to match any whitespace, <i>including</i> newline, and not be interpreted as part of a range in this case.<p>

This one below does work, and thank you!  But as you say, it's kludgy. Is this really the best emacs can do to replace a phrase?!  Why doesn't <code>\s-</code> work in this context? Is there no way to match any whitespace?

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<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">Jeremiah Dodds wrote:</div>
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The following works for me with the words separated by arbitrary
whitespace including newlines (although it is ugly, and I'm sure there's
better ways to do it):

M-x replace-regexp foo[ ^TAB^j]*bar[ ^TAB^j]*baz[ ^TAB^j] RET fbb RET
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