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-Note that we might also want to consider non-adjacent matches (the regular expression 'i.*e' instead of 'ie' or perhaps 'c.*ie' or 'c.*i.*e' instead of 'cie') - this would be straightforward to check, but this would bulk up the page.
+Note that we might also want to consider non-adjacent matches (the regular expression 'i.*e' instead of 'ie' or perhaps 'c.*ie' or 'c.*i.*e' instead of 'cie') - this would be straightforward to check, but this would bulk up the page. (And, to be meaningful, we'd want a more constrained wildcard than <code>.*</code> -- at the very least we would not want to span words.)
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