Extract words from the middle of a description?

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ARLINGTON AWR.24"X30" Double Door Wall Cabinet (KITCHEN) OAK

I want to extract the "Double door" from J3's description and fill into a new cell like jj3. I tried =mid(formula) as it states in the help. But it didn't work. Help....
 

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*All Roles*: = mslabs (Mail Group); Application Main: High Performance Lab= mshpl-team (Mail Group); Server Support Main: = unixops-na (Mail Group); Validator: = mslabs (Mail Group);

how to extract words from "Application" to "mshpl-team (Mail Group);" from each cell of a column if the lenghth of the words before "Application" varies in each cell. for example,

*All Roles*: = msqe-eng (Mail Group); Application Main: All Apps= msqe-ops (Mail Group); Validator: = msqe-eng (Mail Group), msqe-ops-all (Mail Group), na-esp-ai (Mail Group)
 
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