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Word Search II
Problem statement
Given an m x n board of lowercase English letters and an array of distinct lowercase words, return every word that can be formed on the board.
A word is formed by starting at any cell and repeatedly moving one cell horizontally or vertically. A board cell may be used at most once while forming one word.
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Example 1
board = [["o","a","a","n"],["e","t","a","e"],["i","h","k","r"],["i","f","l","v"]]words = ["oath","pea","eat","rain"]return = ["oath","eat"]The paths o-a-t-h and e-a-t use horizontal or vertical neighbors without reusing a cell.
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