In reStructuredText, how to put an inline literal inside of a hyperlink?

Question

In my reStructuredText document, I have a section defined like so:

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Answer 1

Taken from the Sphinx documentation:

If you place a label directly before a section title, you can reference to it with :ref:`label-name`.

Example:

.. _my-reference-label:

Section to cross-reference
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This is the text of the section.

It refers to the section itself, see :ref:`my-reference-label`.