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What is lazy evaluation in Java Streams?
Tests whether you know intermediate operations only build up a pipeline of transformations without executing, and the entire chain runs element-by-element only when a terminal operation pulls a result -- which is why short-circuiting ops like findFirst() can skip most of the data entirely.
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