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Given a list of Strings, how would you filter strings with length greater than 3, sort them based on length, and return the top 3 strings?

Tests whether you can chain filter().sorted(Comparator.comparingInt(String::length)).limit(3) correctly in one readable pipeline, understanding that limit() after sorted() is what actually bounds the result to the top N.

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