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 ## Library usage
 
 This is a fork of univalue used by Bitcoin Core. It is not maintained for usage
-by other projects. Notably, the API may break in non-backward-compatible ways.
+by other projects. Notably, the API is broken in non-backward-compatible ways.
 
 Other projects looking for a maintained library should use the upstream
 univalue at https://github.com/jgarzik/univalue.