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 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR unshare ()
 allows a process (or thread) to disassociate parts of its execution
-context that are currently being shared with other processes or threads).
+context that are currently being shared with other processes (or threads).
 Part of the execution context, such as the mount namespace, is shared
 implicitly when a new process is created using
 .BR fork (2)