glob is a list generator. An entry will be generated for each value of a list in curlies

$ perl -le'print for glob "{a,b,c}{d,e,f}"'
ad
ae
af
bd
be
bf
cd
ce
cf
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A shell example:

cp file{,.bk}
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is the same as

cp file file.bk
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