diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Overview of Changes in GTK 3.98.0
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   While this release gets significantly closer to what we aim for in GTK 4,
-  there are still a few big items outstanding that are we are currently work
+  there are still a few big items outstanding that we are currently working
   on.
 
   - Animation API