}

  // Query Operations

  /**
   * Returns the number of occurrences of {@code element} in this multiset.
   *
   * @param element the element to look for
   * @return the nonnegative number of occurrences of the element
   */
  @Override
  public int count(@Nullable Object element) {
    AtomicInteger existingCounter = safeGet(countMap, element);