Is there a good way that I can store an array in a single row using MySQL?

I was taught that under a clean relational database design, arrays should
be stored one element per row. However, this makes retrieving the entire
array less practical, especially when I have an array of arrays.

I've thought about storing an array of words as a VARCHAR() string, and
using a FULLTEXT index to search through it, but I'm concerned about
efficiency.

What should I do?


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