Implement a Trie and support prefix search + delete

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  1. 01Represent nodes with children and terminal metadata
  2. 02Insert one character edge at a time
  3. 03Search exact words using terminal flag
  4. 04Traverse prefix then enumerate or count descendants
  5. 05Delete bottom-up only when a node is unused

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