Order is also important in our (possibly quite contrived) example. Change it around just a bit and you see the problem:

my $foo  = "A woman and a man saw a frog by the pond\n";

s/frog/toad/g, s/man/boy/, s/woman/girl/, print for ($foo);

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A woboy and a man saw a toad by the pond
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