broken .pot file

Hi,
I need to translate some strings using the .pot file, but Poedit says that there is an invalid control sequence in it and thus no .mo file can be created or used.
This is sequence in question:

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Poedit doesn’t let me touch the original sequence so I don’t know what to do.