Intermittent misses in the Find feature

I recently bought SDL Trados Studio 2021 Freelance, and I noticed that the Find function isn’t reliable. I searched for a string in the target, but it wasn’t found despite the fact that the string was undeniably presnt in the target text. I checked for hidden characters in the string (including spaces in the search string) but found none. I also tried shortening the search string, but nothing worked.

Of course this is an intermittent error, and most of the time the search string can be found, but the fact that there is a potential risk of this fundamental feaature not working is disturbing.

Are you aware of this flaw, and if so, is there a remedy for it?