Filtering array of objects by searching nested object properties

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I have an array of objects that I want to filter by comparing a nested property to a search term.

For example:

 var array = [
      {category: 'Business'
       users: [
                {name: 'Sally'
                 tags: [{tag: 'accounting'}, {tag: 'marketing'},...]
                },
                {name: 'Bob'
                 tags: [{tag: 'sales'}, {tag: 'accounting'},...]
                }...
              ]
       },
       {category: 'Heritage'
        users: [
                 {name: 'Linda'
                  tags: [{tag: 'Italy'}, {tag: 'Macedonia'},...]
                 },
                 {name: 'George'
                  tags: [{tag: 'South Africa'}, {tag: 'Chile'},...]
                 },...
               ]
       },...
    [

Essentially I want to filter the base array of objects by a search terms that include characters from the tag property string in the nested objects 2 arrays down.

So a search for 'market' would result in

[
  {category: 'Business'
   users: [
            {name: 'Sally'
             tags: [{tag: 'accounting'}, {tag: 'marketing'},...]
            },
            {name: 'Bob'
             tags: [{tag: 'sales'}, {tag: 'accounting'},...]
            }...
          ]
   }
]

Thank you.

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