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When the code scales so poorly in the face of large inputs that it cannot complete in a reasonable amount of time, use this instead of the [performance] tag.

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Repeatedly eliminate a substring

I'm trying to pass a programming challenge where we are to replace all instances of a substring in a string until there are none left. So an input like Pibabakekezza bake Has output Pizza …
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