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 # LLM Prose Tells
 
 Human writers occasionally use every pattern in this document. The reason they
-work as tells is that LLM output packs fifteen of them into a single paragraph
-where a human would use one or two across an entire essay.
+work as tells is that LLM output packs fifteen of them into a paragraph.
 
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