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Rule "world wide (worldwide)"

Pattern:	world wide /exceptions=[web]
Description:	world wide (worldwide)
Message:	Did you mean worldwide?
Category:	Possible Typos
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Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	There was a world wide epidemic.
Correct sentences for comparison:	There was a worldwide epidemic.
ID:	WORLD_WIDE [1]

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....<ref name="Streissguth"></ref> According to the World Wide Fund for Nature and Digital Map of European Ecolo..

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