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Kitty Pryde

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “comic book superhero in the marvel comics universe”. Today it says “character appearing in american comic books published by marvel comics”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Fictional superhero appearing in Marvel Comics”. It now reads “Marvel Comics fictional character Comics character Katherine Anne "”.
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The opening as it read in 2005

Kitty" Anne Pryde) is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe . She used the code-names Sprite and Ariel in her early career, and is a member of the X-Men . She first appeared in X-Men #129 (January 1980 ). She is notable as one of the few recognizably Jewish characters in Marvel Comics.1

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “comic book superhero in the marvel comics universe”. Today it says “character appearing in american comic books published by marvel comics”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Fictional superhero appearing in Marvel Comics”. It now reads “Marvel Comics fictional character Comics character Katherine Anne "”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2005, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.

Then

comic book superhero in the marvel comics universe

Now

character appearing in american comic books published by marvel comics

Sections that no longer exist

Present on October 6, 2023, absent today, with no near-matching heading in the current article and the article shorter overall, so this is not a renamed heading or a topic absorbed into a fuller treatment. 6 sections of 400 characters or more gone since October 6 2023, with the article 14,232 characters shorter.

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