Certainly. You cannot put an index on it, so the search may be slow if
you have a lot of records and/or a lot of text in the memo field, but
a Query like

SELECT * FROM MyTable
WHERE memofield LIKE "*zebra*"

will find all the records containing zebra in the memo field.

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