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<TD>Used to annotate a value that may be either negative or nonnegative, and
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<TD>This annotation can be applied to a package, class or method to indicate that
 the method parameters in that element are nonnull by default unless there is:
 
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<TD>This annotation can be applied to a package, class or method to indicate that
 the method parameters in that element are nullable by default unless there is:
 
 An explicit nullness annotation
 The method overrides a method in a superclass (in which case the
 annotation of the corresponding parameter in the superclass applies)
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