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Links that will ordinarily be crawled when your site is crawled, like those in a top navigation or footer, don't necessarily need to be included in a sitemap. As specified by Google:

Sitemaps are a way to tell Google about pages on your site we might
not otherwise discover...Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make
sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including
URLs that may not be discoverable by Google's normal crawling process.

Just make sure they won't be blocked through some other means (like Disallowed in a robots.txt, hidden in complex JavaScript, blocked with a noindex meta tag on the page, or an X-Robots-Tag HTTP header, etc...).

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