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288. Unique Word Abbreviation (Medium)

An abbreviation of a word follows the form <first letter><number><last letter>. Below are some examples of word abbreviations:

a) it                      --> it    (no abbreviation)

     1
     ↓
b) d|o|g                   --> d1g

              1    1  1
     1---5----0----5--8
     ↓   ↓    ↓    ↓  ↓    
c) i|nternationalizatio|n  --> i18n

              1
     1---5----0
     ↓   ↓    ↓
d) l|ocalizatio|n          --> l10n

Assume you have a dictionary and given a word, find whether its abbreviation is unique in the dictionary. A word's abbreviation is unique if no other word from the dictionary has the same abbreviation.

Example:

Given dictionary = [ "deer", "door", "cake", "card" ]

isUnique("dear") -> false
isUnique("cart") -> true
isUnique("cane") -> false
isUnique("make") -> true

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