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package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.Validate;

/**
 * A simple word tokenizer that utilizes regex to find words. It applies a regex
 * {@code}(\w)+{@code} over the input text to extract words from a given character
 * sequence.
 *
 * @since 1.0
 */
class RegexTokenizer implements Tokenizer<CharSequence> {

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     *
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the input text is blank
     */
    @Override
    public CharSequence[] tokenize(final CharSequence text) {
        Validate.isTrue(StringUtils.isNotBlank(text), "Invalid text");
        final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("(\\w)+");
        final Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(text.toString());
        final List<String> tokens = new ArrayList<>();
        while (matcher.find()) {
            tokens.add(matcher.group(0));
        }
        return tokens.toArray(new String[0]);
    }

}

@@ -1143,20 +1143,14 @@
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-%7D
+ 
 (%5Cw)+
-%7B@code
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@@ -1298,16 +1298,121 @@
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+%0A    /** The whitespace pattern. */%0A    private static final Pattern PATTERN = Pattern.compile(%22(%5C%5Cw)+%22);
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@@ -1667,67 +1667,8 @@
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-        final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(%22(%5C%5Cw)+%22);%0A
     
@@ -1695,23 +1695,23 @@
 tcher = 
-pattern
+PATTERN
 .matcher
@@ -1719,19 +1719,8 @@
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-.toString()
 );%0A 

Fix the RegexTokenizer to use a static Pattern.