Why is this Java code in curly braces ({}) outside of a method?

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Borrowed from here –

Normally, you would put code to initialize an instance variable in a
constructor. There are two alternatives to using a constructor to
initialize instance variables: initializer blocks and final methods.
Initializer blocks for instance variables look just like static
initializer blocks, but without the static keyword:

{
    // whatever code is needed for initialization goes here
}

The Java compiler copies initializer blocks into every constructor. Therefore, this approach can be used to share a block of code between multiple constructors.

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