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Got it with one tool(!), albeit with a little help from Ask Jeeves (or some search engine....)
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Process:
\b(\w+)(?:\s+\1\b)+
As I understand it (please correct me if I am wrong), this says that the match would need to be of the entire word (vs a portion of the word), it then compares each word to the next word (which is not in the marked group) and looks for a whole word (as the immediately adjacent word)
Then by setting the replace to ${1} it ensures the initial duplicated word remains
\b(\w+)(?:\s+\1\b)+
As I understand it (please correct me if I am wrong), this says that the match would need to be of the entire word (vs a portion of the word), it then compares each word to the next word (which is not in the marked group) and looks for a whole word (as the immediately adjacent word)
Then by setting the replace to ${1} it ensures the initial duplicated word remains
