Grep: Excluding a specific folder using

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Say our folder structure looks like this:

/app
/app/data
...
/app/secondary
/app/secondary/data

I want to recursively search /app/data but I do not want to search /app/secondary/data.

From within the app folder, what would my grep command look like?

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