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Breadth-First Search

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Breadth-first search traverses a graph level by level, exploring every neighbor before any neighbor's neighbor, visiting each vertex once in correct level order — cost likewise in O(V plus E).

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A rumor spreading through a school reaches every direct friend before any friend-of-a-friend.

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Level order is the promise depth-first never makes.

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