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@@ -172,10 +172,13 @@ the same bug ("I have a dup of this"); as a verb, the act of marking a bug
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written "dupe". Pronounced the same way as the first syllable of
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"duplicate", which for most American English speakers is "doop".
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## existential
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## existential type
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A value whose type is a protocol composition (including a single protocol
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and *zero* protocols; the latter is the `Any` type).
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A type that is a protocol composition (including a single protocol and *zero* protocols; the latter is the `Any` type).
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## existential value
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A value of [existential type](#existential-type), commonly referred to simply as an "existential".
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## explicit module build
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