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ways to construct infinitely many non-hyperbolic closed manifolds. On the other hand, the heuristic statement that "a generic 3-manifold tends to be hyperbolic" is verified in many contexts. For example, any knot which is not either a satellite knot or a torus knot is hyperbolic. Moreover, almost all Dehn surgeries on a hyperbolic knot yield a hyperbolic manifold. A similar result is true of links (Thurston's hyperbolic Dehn surgery

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