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 ```
 
 If you want to build an application that uses `bat`'s pretty-printing
-features as a library, check out the [the API documentation](https://docs.rs/bat/).
+features as a library, check out the [API documentation](https://docs.rs/bat/).
 Note that you have to use either `regex-onig` or `regex-fancy` as a feature
 when you depend on `bat` as a library.