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You are given a string s consisting of only lowercase English letters. In one operation, you can do the following:

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Return the lexicographically smallest string you can obtain after performing the above operation exactly once.

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A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters in a string.

\nA string x is lexicographically smaller than a string y of the same length if x[i] comes before y[i] in alphabetic order for the first position i such that x[i] != y[i].\n

 

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Example 1:

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\nInput: s = "cbabc"\nOutput: "baabc"\nExplanation: We apply the operation on the substring starting at index 0, and ending at index 1 inclusive. \nIt can be proven that the resulting string is the lexicographically smallest. \n
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Example 2:

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\nInput: s = "acbbc"\nOutput: "abaab"\nExplanation: We apply the operation on the substring starting at index 1, and ending at index 4 inclusive. \nIt can be proven that the resulting string is the lexicographically smallest. \n
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Example 3:

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\nInput: s = "leetcode"\nOutput: "kddsbncd"\nExplanation: We apply the operation on the entire string. \nIt can be proven that the resulting string is the lexicographically smallest. \n
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