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is-email-address method incorrectly validates invalid email addresses

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Description

### Description

### Description
The **is-email-address** method in the **lib/@ stdlib /assert/** module is incorrectly returning true for invalid email addresses.

### Related Issues

When attempting to validate email addresses using the is-email-address method, we are encountering unexpected results. For example, when providing the following inputs:

@
@gmail.com
abc@gmail
abc@

The validation does not behave as expected.

### Questions

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### Demo

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### Reproduction

```shell
- We need to modify the regular expression used for validating email addresses.
```

### Expected Results

```shell
false
false
false
false
```

### Actual Results

```shell
true
true
true
true
```

### Version

^0.6.0

### Environments

Node.js

### Browser Version

_No response_

### Node.js / npm Version

v22.11.0 / 10.9.0

### Platform

Windows 11

### Checklist

- [x] Read and understood the [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/stdlib-js/stdlib/blob/develop/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
- [x] Searched for existing issues and pull requests.

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