Eliminating duplicates using Set

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Suppose you have a collection elements, and you want to create another collection containing the same elements but with all duplicates eliminated:

Collection<Type> noDuplicates = new HashSet<Type>(elements);

Example:

List<String> names = new ArrayList<>(
        Arrays.asList("John", "Marco", "Jenny", "Emily", "Jenny", "Emily", "John"));
Set<String> noDuplicates = new HashSet<>(names);
System.out.println("noDuplicates = " + noDuplicates);

Output:

noDuplicates = [Marco, Emily, John, Jenny]

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