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Sort a map by value
Tests whether you reach for entrySet().stream().sorted(Map.Entry.comparingByValue()) and collect into a LinkedHashMap to preserve the sorted order, since a Map itself has no inherent sort-by-value operation and a regular HashMap wouldn't retain any ordering you impose on it.
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