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Rule "de jure (du jour)"

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Description:	de jure (du jour)
Message:	'\1 \2' is a legal term. Did you mean du jour or more simply of the day?
Category:	Commonly Confused Words (ID: CONFUSED_WORDS)
Link:	https://www.lexico.com/definition/du_jour
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	Do you like the soup de jure? Correction suggestion: du jour, of the day
Correct sentences for comparison:	Do you like the soup du jour? Now it has to be done de jure (by law), so it can become official. The legal framework for this de jure decision is... Although being de facto independent since the end of the war, de jure it is still... ...and the region is still considered a de jure part of Azerbaijan, despite being de facto independent since the end of the war.
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Check the following text against just this rule:
ID:	DE_JURE_DU_JOUR [1]
Version:	6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-25 22:33:07 +0200)

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