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"ref": "1994, Marilyn Jager Adams, Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print, page 105",
"text": "Skillful readers' processing of text seems far too fast and efficient to be based on letterwise processing of its print.",
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"ref": "2008, Joachim Biskup, Security in Computing Systems: Challenges, Approaches and Solutions, page 410",
"text": "[…] an encryption algorithm with multiple usage of a secret key for the letterwise encryption of prefixes […]",
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"In terms of letters of the alphabet."
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