diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index 2997f8fcf89..40d5ae2f32b 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -1165,8 +1165,8 @@ alternate implementation.  (Contributed by Alexander Belopolsky.)
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-* The format menu now has an option to clean-up source files by strip trailing
-  whitespace (:issue:`5150`).
+* The format menu now has an option to clean-up source files by stripping
+  trailing whitespace (:issue:`5150`).
 
 
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