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Given a string s, sort it in decreasing order based on the frequency of the characters. The frequency of a character is the number of times it appears in the string.

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Return the sorted string. If there are multiple answers, return any of them.

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Example 1:

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\nInput: s = "tree"\nOutput: "eert"\nExplanation: 'e' appears twice while 'r' and 't' both appear once.\nSo 'e' must appear before both 'r' and 't'. Therefore "eetr" is also a valid answer.\n
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Example 2:

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\nInput: s = "cccaaa"\nOutput: "aaaccc"\nExplanation: Both 'c' and 'a' appear three times, so both "cccaaa" and "aaaccc" are valid answers.\nNote that "cacaca" is incorrect, as the same characters must be together.\n
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Example 3:

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\nInput: s = "Aabb"\nOutput: "bbAa"\nExplanation: "bbaA" is also a valid answer, but "Aabb" is incorrect.\nNote that 'A' and 'a' are treated as two different characters.\n
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