It looks like a mail address validation:

^         line-start.
[\w.-]+   a word-char, a dot or a minus, at least once.
\@        a '@'.
(?:[\w-]+\.)+  a word-char, a minus, at least once,
               followed by a dot. Repeat all that.
\w+       some word-chars.
$         end-of-line.
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