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Write a debounce function. It takes another function and a delay in milliseconds and returns a new function that calls the original only once that delay has passed since the last call.

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They're checking your understanding of closures and timers: whether you can return a wrapper function, keep state (timerId) in a closure, and reset the timer correctly so the original function fires once at the end of a series of calls, with the right arguments and this.

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