inputs <-  c( 
    "He's the bigest fan I know." , 
    "I am a huge fan of his." , 
    "I know she has lots of fans in his club" , 
    "I was cold and turned on the fan" , 
    "An air conditioner is better than 2 fans at cooling." 
) 
gsub( 
        "((?:s?he(?: i|')s|(?:you|they|we)(?: a|')re|I(?: a|')m).{1,20})\\ b(fan)(s?)\\ b" ,  
        '\\ 1\\ 2atic\\ 3' ,  
        inputs,  
        perl =  TRUE,  ignore.case  =  TRUE
    ) 
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