Word Stem

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Given n words w[1..n], which originate from the same stem (e.g. grace, graceful, disgraceful, gracefully), we are interested in the original stem. To simplify the problem, we define the stem as the longest consecutive substring that occurs in all the n words. If there are ties, we will choose the smallest one in the alphabetical (lexicographic) order. Input The first line contains an integer T d

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