I decided when working on something similar that a word for me could contain a-z, single-quotes, and hyphens, then had to code around words in single quotes, so it wasn't as simple as /[a-z'-]/.

I think I ended up with

my @words = /(\w[\w'-]*\w|\w+)/g;
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or similar.

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