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The paper studied the initial value problem for a nonlinear wave equation with damping term \[ u_{tt}- 2bu_{xxt}+\alpha u_{xxxx}= \beta(u^n_x)_x,\quad x\in\mathbb{R},\quad t>0, \] \[ u(x,0)= \varphi(x),\quad u_t(x,0)= \psi(x),\quad x\in\mathbb{R}, \] where \(b>0\), \(\alpha>0\) and \(\beta\neq 0\) are all real numbers, and \(n\geq 2\) is an integer. The paper proved that when \(\alpha\neq b^2\), \(\varphi\in L_1(\mathbb{R})\cap H^2(\mathbb{R})\), \(\psi\in L_1(\mathbb{R})\cap L_2(\mathbb{R})\), the above-mentioned problem has a unique smooth solution.