Build a Word Counter

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Open the contacts app on your phone. You look up a person by name and get their phone number. You don't search by position - you don't say "give me contact number 47." You search by name.

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Count how many times each word appears in the given list. Store the counts in a dictionary called word_counts, then print it.

Expected output:

{'hello': 3, 'world': 2, 'python': 1}

words = ['hello', 'world', 'hello', 'python', 'hello', 'world']

# Build a word count dictionary

# Print the result

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