is there a shorter way to write this

[Stephen Hansen]

If the list is unique of 26 elements is guaranteed to be unique, simply:
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Wow, 6am copy editing of my own posts is terribly ineffective.

"If the list of 26 elements is guaranteed to be unique"
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