diff --git a/docs/unified-diffs.md b/docs/unified-diffs.md
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--- a/docs/unified-diffs.md
+++ b/docs/unified-diffs.md
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ and flexible editing format.
 
 ### Choose a familiar editing format
 
-Unified diffs are perhaps the most commonly used format for showing
+Unified diffs are perhaps the most common way to show
 code edits, because it's the 
 default output format of `git diff`: