Game Theory: Finding a table with two or more weakly dominant equilibriums?

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Textbook question:

(True/False) It is impossible to get more than one weakly dominant strategy equilibrium.

I came up with this table below, which I think it depicts one weakly dominant strategy. For player 2, picking B weakly dominates A, and, for player 1, picking A weakly dominates B. Thus, there is one weakly dominant equilibrium at $(4, -2)$. I can't seem to find a table with more than two.

However, I can see that the table has two Nash equilibriums at $(2,-2$) and $(4, -2)$.

$$ \begin{array}{cc} & \text{Player $2$} \\ \text{Player $1$} & \begin{array}{c|c|c|} & A & B \\ \hline A & (2,-2) & (4,-2) \\ \hline B & (2,3) & (3,4) \\ \hline \end{array} \end{array} $$

UPDATE:

I tried doing another table with another row with the same payoff as the first row, and I think it now represents two weakly dominant strategies. Can someone confirm this? $$ \begin{array}{cc} & \text{Player $2$} \\ \text{Player $1$} & \begin{array}{c|c|c|} & A & B \\ \hline A & (2,-2) & (4,-2) \\ \hline B & (2,3) & (3,4) \\ \hline C & (2,-2) & (4,-2) \\ \hline \end{array} \end{array} $$

Player 1 has two weakly dominant strategies $A$ and $C$.

Player 2 has one weakly dominant strategies $B$.

Thus, two weakly dominant equilibriums at $(A, B)$ and $(C, B)$

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Good attempt, but by introducing strategy $C$, $A$ is no longer weakly dominant. In fact, this should suggest to you the following conjecture:

Weakly dominant strategies are unique.

Show why this is the case and the answer to your stated question should follow immediately.