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Apology Remover

Remove excessive apologies and sycophantic phrases from AI-generated text. Targets "I apologize", "I'm sorry", "Great question!", and similar AI pleasantries

Version 2026011223304616 operations
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Operations

Regex Replacer
Step 1
flags:"gi"
pattern:"I (?:sincerely |truly |deeply |really )?apologize[^.!?]*[.!?]? ?"
replacement:""
preserve_structure:true
Regex Replacer
Step 2
flags:"gi"
pattern:"I'?m (?:so |very |truly |really )?sorry[^.!?]*[.!?]? ?"
replacement:""
preserve_structure:true
Regex Replacer
Step 3
flags:"gi"
pattern:"I am (?:so |very |truly |really )?sorry[^.!?]*[.!?]? ?"
replacement:""
preserve_structure:true
Regex Replacer
Step 4
flags:"gi"
pattern:"(?:I'm |I am )?Sorry (?:for |about |that )[^.!?]*[.!?]? ?"
replacement:""
preserve_structure:true
Regex Replacer
Step 5
flags:"gi"
pattern:"Please forgive[^.!?]*[.!?]? ?"
replacement:""
preserve_structure:true
Regex Replacer
Step 6
flags:"gi"
pattern:"My (?:sincere )?apologies[^.!?]*[.!?]? ?"
replacement:""
preserve_structure:true
Regex Replacer
Step 7
flags:"gi"
pattern:"Apologies for[^.!?]*[.!?]? ?"
replacement:""
preserve_structure:true
Regex Replacer
Step 8
flags:"gi"
pattern:"(?:That'?s (?:a |an )?)?(?:Great|Excellent|Good|Wonderful|Fantastic|Interesting|Thoughtful) question[^.!?]*[.!?]? ?"
replacement:""
preserve_structure:true
Regex Replacer
Step 9
flags:"gi"
pattern:"(?:I'?d |I would |I'?ll |I will )?(?:be )?happy to (?:help|assist|explain)[^.!?]*[.!?]? ?"
replacement:""
preserve_structure:true
Regex Replacer
Step 10
flags:"gi"
pattern:"(?:I'?d |I would )?(?:be )?glad to (?:help|assist|explain)[^.!?]*[.!?]? ?"
replacement:""
preserve_structure:true
Regex Replacer
Step 11
flags:"gi"
pattern:"(?:I'?d |I would )?love to help[^.!?]*[.!?]? ?"
replacement:""
preserve_structure:true
Regex Replacer
Step 12
flags:"gi"
pattern:"Let me help you[^.!?]*[.!?]? ?"
replacement:""
preserve_structure:true
Regex Replacer
Step 13
flags:"gi"
pattern:"(?:^|(?<=[.!?] ))(Certainly|Of course|Absolutely|Sure thing|Sure|Definitely)[!.,]? ?"
replacement:""
preserve_structure:true
Regex Replacer
Step 14
flags:"gi"
pattern:"(?:Thanks|Thank you) for (?:asking|your question|reaching out|the question)[^.!?]*[.!?]? ?"
replacement:""
preserve_structure:true
Punctuation Normalizer
Step 15
Capitalization Style
Step 16
mode:"sentence"
preserve_headings:true