If you underboil an egg, you'll end up with a softboiled egg instead of the hardboiled egg that you wanted; and if you overboil an egg, you'll end up with a hardboiled egg instead of the softboiled egg that you wanted.
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If you underboil an egg, you'll end up with a softboiled egg instead of the hardboiled egg that you wanted; and if you overboil an egg, you'll end up with a hardboiled egg instead of the softboiled egg that you wanted.
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