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test1 & test2 & test3 the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog a few times to pad out the sentence. \\
test4 & \multicolumn{2}{||X||}{test4 why does this cell content not spread to the width of the entire table? This is strange since the cell border seems to be aligned with the previous one} \\
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