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### Sendable Values and Sendable Types

A type that conforms to the `Sendable` protocol is a thread-safe type: values of
that type can be shared with and used safely from multiple concurrent contexts
at once without causing data races. If a value does not conform to `Sendable`,
A type that conforms to the `Sendable` protocol can be used safely from multiple
concurrent contexts at once without causing data races since values of
that type can be shared with in a thread-safe way or transferred by copying them
to avoid sharing. If a value does not conform to `Sendable`,
Swift must ensure that the value is never used concurrently. The value can still
be sent between concurrent contexts, but the send must be a complete transfer of
the value's entire region implying that all uses of the value (and anything
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