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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ interface for the Docker Engine API. For Mirantis customers, that means that Doc
 version, Mirantis Container Runtime (MCR), will be CRI compliant. This means that you can continue to build Kubernetes
 based on the Docker Engine as before, just switching from the built in dockershim to the external one.
 
-Mirantis and Docker intent to work together on making sure it continues to work as well as before and that it
+Mirantis and Docker intend to work together on making sure it continues to work as well as before and that it
 passes all the conformance tests and continues to work just like the built in version did. Mirantis will be using
 this in Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, and Docker will continue to ship this shim in Docker Desktop.