# Given words = 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog the fox'.split(), use collections.Counter

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Domain: Python · Difficulty: medium

## Problem

Given words = 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog the fox'.split(), use collections.Counter to print the 3 most common words and their counts as a list of tuples.

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