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I came across this question and saw a different duplicate text from what it usually is:
Possible duplicate: {link}
And I randomly picked another duplicate question from the front page, where the text says regularly:
This question already has an answer here: {link}
What's the reason for the difference?
The Possible duplicate message is from older times. You can actually view the revisions and see it's an automatically inserted text which is now part of the question's body.
The corresponding close reason type is 1 – Exact Duplicate in SEDE and the data dump.
This question already has an answer here is used for questions which were closed more recently, and it's a banner which is generated separately from the question. The close reason type here is 101 – Duplicate.
