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The assertion in the title implies that many interesting groups (for example, all non-abelian braid groups or SL₁₀₀(Z)) are not strongly verbally closed, i. e., they embed into some finitely generated groups as verbally closed subgroups, which are not retracts.
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Denissov et al. (2024) studied this question.
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