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 ```
 
 `filter()` is an adapter that takes a closure as an argument. This closure
-returns `true` or `false`. The new iterator `filter()` produces returns
-only the elements that that closure returned `true` for:
+returns `true` or `false`. The new iterator `filter()` produces
+only the elements that that closure returns `true` for:
 
 ```{rust}
 for i in range(1i, 100i).filter(|x| x % 2 == 0) {