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 ## Byte Slice Operations
 
-There are a lot of common byte slice operations that are missing from the
-built-in standard library:
+Here's a few additional operations for working with slices of bytes:
 
 * `ContainsOnly(b, chars)`
 * `FromRange(a, z)`