excerpt_remove_footnotes()

excerpt_remove_footnotes( string $content ): string

function excerpt_remove_footnotes( $content ) {
	if ( ! str_contains( $content, 'data-fn=' ) ) {
		return $content;
	}

	return preg_replace(
		'_<sup data-fn="[^"]+" class="[^"]+">\s*<a href="[^"]+" id="[^"]+">\d+</a>\s*</sup>_',
		'',
		$content
	);
}