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 *boltons should be builtins.*
 
 **Boltons** is a set of over 100 BSD-licensed, pure-Python utilities
-in the same spirit as — and yet conspicuously missing from — the
+in the same spirit as — and yet conspicuously missing from —
 [the standard library][stdlib], including:
 
   * [Atomic file saving][atomic], bolted on with [fileutils][fileutils]