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@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ The steps in the following example can be run locally in order to:
 * encrypt the file
 * decrypt the file
 
-If these steps work, sops configured correctly - on your machine ;-) 
+If these steps work, sops is configured correctly - on your machine ;-) 
 
 ```bash
 #!/usr/bin/env bash