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Several contraction (apostrophe) replacements failing due to word boundary #1

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decontract("wouldn't've");
// expected: "would not have"
// actual: "would not've"

decontract("'cause");
// expected: "because"
// actual: "'cause"

Description

The replacement logic uses Regex word boundaries, but this does not give the expected result when a word contains multiple apostrophes or end/starts with an apostrophe.

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