Regular Expression For Duplicate Words

Question

I\'m a regular expression newbie, and I can\'t quite figure out how to write a single regular expression that would "match" any duplicate consecutive words such as

Answer 1

This is the regex I use to remove duplicate phrases in my twitch bot:

(\S+\s*)\1{2,}

(\S+\s*) looks for any string of characters that isn't whitespace, followed whitespace.

\1{2,} then looks for more than 2 instances of that phrase in the string to match. If there are 3 phrases that are identical, it matches.