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In this paper, we consider the possibility that an element belongs to a set and put forward the concept of possibility neutrosophic cubic sets. On this basis, we introduce some related concepts and give the binary operation of possibility neutrosophic cubic sets and use specific examples to supplement the corresponding definition. 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