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 # Async Traits
 
-Async methods in traits are were stabilized in the 1.75 release. This required
+Async methods in traits were stabilized in the 1.75 release. This required
 support for using return-position `impl Trait` in traits, as the desugaring for
 `async fn` includes `-> impl Future<Output = ...>`.