JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<p class="something">
    <a href="http://example.com/9999">text 1 2 3</a>
    <a href="http://example.com/2346saasdf">text 3 4 5</a>
    (9999)
    <a href="http://example.com/sad3ws">text 5 6 7random</a>
</p>

JavaScript

var x = $('p').clone().find('a').remove().end().text();
document.write(x);