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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 coerce_many(schema=str):
 """Expect the input to be a sequence of items which conform to `schema`."""

    def validate(val):
        """Apply schema check/version to each item."""
        return [volup.Coerce(schema)(x) for x in val]
    return validate