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Only independent evidence moves it.","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W3015468748","title":"Longformer: The Long-Document Transformer","authors":["Iz Beltagy","Matthew E. 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