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 **dumb-init** is a simple process supervisor and init system designed to run as
-PID 1 inside minimal container environments (such as [Docker][docker]). It is a
+PID 1 inside minimal container environments (such as [Docker][docker]). It is
 deployed as a small, statically-linked binary written in C.
 
 Lightweight containers have popularized the idea of running a single process or