InDesign tip: Fix breaks caused by brackets in a quote

Here's a nice simple one. When an author replaces a letter in a word inside a quote, they'll often surround the letter with brackets. Brackets won't automatically keep with connected characters in InDesign, however, so you'll end up with this nonsense: 

A word as simple as it, when written as [i]t, will unfortunately break. No author likes seeing this, so it's something you have to fix. It's something I've manually fixed (and had to look for) forever, until I tried this tiny stupid GREP trick:

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](wildcard for any letter), and apply a character style with "no break" checked.

Keeping this inside your body paragraph style will result in exactly what you'd hope to see:

Since I figured this one out, it's been an automatic inclusion into almost all my paragraph styles.