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@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ binary, these evaluation criteria are considered:
 - The library cannot be interpreted by with babashka using `--classpath`.
 - The functionality can't be met by shelling out to another CLI or can't be
   written as a small layer over an existing CLI (like `babashka.curl`) instead.
-- The library cannot be implemented a
+- The library cannot be implemented as a
   [pod](https://github.com/babashka/babashka.pods).
 
 If not all of the criteria are met, but adding a feature is still useful to a