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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def annotate(self, annotation: Any) -> None: """Annotates this expression with the given annotation. :param annotation: """

        if isinstance(annotation, list):
            self._annotations += annotation
        else:
            self._annotations.append(annotation)