👉 In programming, a "dereferenced" value is one that has been assigned to a variable and can be accessed using its name. This means it's not an object or a reference to another object, but rather an actual value that can be manipulated as if it were an object. For example: ```python my_variable = 'Hello, World!' print(my_variable) # Output: Hello, World! # Now my_variable is a string my_variable = 'World' print(my