Google says a sitemap helps search engines discover URLs and crawl a site more efficiently, but it does not guarantee that all the items in it will be crawled and indexed.
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/overviewThe full answer on sitemaps and what crawling means is here:
https://aiwebpageseo.com/blog/does-a-sitemap-help-seo-what-is-crawlingDo you submit a sitemap for every site you run, and what did you do when pages in it stayed out of the index?
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