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Title: Ruling out Color Transparency in Quasielastic $^{12}\mathrm{C}(\mathrm{e},{e}^{'}\mathrm{p})$ up to ${Q}^{2}$ of $14.2\text{ }\text{ }(\mathrm{GeV}/\mathrm{c}{)}^{2}$
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