diff --git a/lib/text-highlight.ts b/lib/text-highlight.ts
index 44714b66..21f528b1 100644
--- a/lib/text-highlight.ts
+++ b/lib/text-highlight.ts
@@ -78,9 +78,14 @@ export function extractMatchedText(
   fragment: { prefix: string; suffix: string; length: number },
   paragraphs: string[],
 ): string | null {
-  // Strip HTML tags to get plain text
+  // Strip HTML tags and entities to get plain text. The entity regex must be
+  // strict — `&[^;]+;` would greedily pair a stray `&` (e.g. "24 & 25 Oct")
+  // with a far-away `;` (e.g. "my beloved son;"), eating everything between
+  // them. Only match real entities: named (&), decimal ('), hex (').
   const plainParagraphs = paragraphs.map((p) =>
-    p.replace(/<[^>]*>/g, "").replace(/&[^;]+;/g, " "),
+    p
+      .replace(/<[^>]*>/g, "")
+      .replace(/&(?:[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*|#\d+|#x[0-9a-fA-F]+);/g, " "),
   );
 
   // Build a single string with paragraph breaks