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He gave no specific timetable for when he might return.

The 77-year-old Canadian has become an American institution in the decades since he started hosting B次元官网网址淛eopardyB次元官网网址� in 1984, beloved for the way he calmly delivers tough trivia to the cognoscenti that make up the showB次元官网网址檚 contestants.

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