Trying to get a boolean responce with equals or == with strings

[marble sorrel]

Using netbeans IDE 17 have a String resto and an Vector<String> palabra comparing them when they are the same string returns false
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[marble sorrel]

both situations in the print and in the if return false, researched and i found this