In MW, annotations loaded from the document will have data-parsoid attributes, and so will have difference store indexes to new annotations. If two words with differently indexed bold annotations are placed side-by-side they converter will close the first one before opening the second, e.g.:
<b>Bold on load text</b><b>added text</b>
Which Parsoid converts to
'''Bold on load text''''''added text'''
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Severity: normal