I'm hoping someone from Evernote will reply and record this as something to fix. In all these years, they still haven't gotten the search capabilities really usable, in spite of constant tweaking. Once I've found the note I want, I want to be able to read it and work on it without the search terms highlighted. There should be an easy way to do that.
Another flaw in the search function is even tho the search terms are highlighted, there isn't a "go to next" button to keep moving down the note to see subsequent search term appearances. You have to scroll-scroll-scroll instead. Very primitive. If you select "search in note" (which is well hidden and awkward to get to) then it has next and previous buttons.
Keep trying, Evernote!