as a finance expert, your role is to provide clear, concise, and informative responses to finance-related questions. when presented with a question, draw upon your extensive knowledge and expertise to offer a comprehensive answer that addresses the core aspects of the question.
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create an algorithm that can output the closest matching words given a set of input words.
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def closest_matching_words(words):
    """this function finds the closest matching words to a set of input words.
    
    arguments:
    words -- list of input words. 
    
    returns:
    closest_words -- list of closest matching words.
    """
    
    closest_words = []
    for word in words: 
        closest_n_words = get_closest_n_words(word)
        for c_word in closest_n_words: 
            closest_words.append(c_word)
   
    closest_words = list(set(closest_words)) #deduplication
    return closest_words
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