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Shortest Unique Prefix

Your task is to find the shortest unique prefix for each word in a list. A prefix is unique if no other word in the list has the same prefix. Implement this using a Trie data structure. The input consists of an integer n followed by n words. Your output should be the shortest unique prefix for each word in the order they were given. Example: Input: 3 apple appetite banana Output: ap ap b

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