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@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ when used with either of GPT-3.5 models.
 The `gpt-3.5-turbo` context window is too small to include a repo map.
 Evaluation is needed to see if `gpt-3.5-turbo-16k` can make use of a repo map.
 
-For now, aider just treats `gpt-3.5-turbo-16k` like a the original `gpt-3.5-turbo` with a larger
+For now, aider just treats `gpt-3.5-turbo-16k` like the original `gpt-3.5-turbo` with a larger
 context window.
 
 ## Installation