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bpo-42294: Add borrowed/strong reference to doc glossary (GH-23206)

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Add "borrowed reference" and "strong reference" to the documentation
glossary.

Enhance also Py_INCREF() and Py_NewRef() documentation.
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@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ when it's no longer needed---or passing on this responsibility (usually to its
caller). When a function passes ownership of a reference on to its caller, the
caller is said to receive a *new* reference. When no ownership is transferred,
the caller is said to *borrow* the reference. Nothing needs to be done for a
borrowed reference.
:term:`borrowed reference`.
Conversely, when a calling function passes in a reference to an object, there
are two possibilities: the function *steals* a reference to the object, or it