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 ### Project philosophy
 
-We take the stability and performance of this package seriously, because it is run millions of times a day in browsers all around the world. Updates are thoroughly reviewed for performance impacts before being released, and we have a comprehensive test suite.
+We take the stability and performance of this package seriously, because it is run millions of times a day in browsers all around the world. Updates are thoroughly reviewed for performance implications before being released, and we have a comprehensive test suite.
 
 Classnames follows the [SemVer](https://semver.org/) standard for versioning.