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bpo-25777: Wording describes a lookup, not a call (GH-15573)

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@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ The important points to remember are:
* non-data descriptors may be overridden by instance dictionaries.
The object returned by ``super()`` also has a custom :meth:`__getattribute__`
method for invoking descriptors. The call ``super(B, obj).m()`` searches
method for invoking descriptors. The attribute lookup ``super(B, obj).m`` searches
``obj.__class__.__mro__`` for the base class ``A`` immediately following ``B``
and then returns ``A.__dict__['m'].__get__(obj, B)``. If not a descriptor,
``m`` is returned unchanged. If not in the dictionary, ``m`` reverts to a