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Per discussion in #jquery-meeting, we're going to back out the core_push.apply( <Array>, <NodeList> ) calls in favor of the older jQuery.merge( <Array>, <NodeList> ), reverting much of ​https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/dc93f8cbb59d230d707193118124689c6fd930ff et al.