diff --git a/develop/dev-best-practices.md b/develop/dev-best-practices.md
index 1dc221a0de..d9945e158e 100644
--- a/develop/dev-best-practices.md
+++ b/develop/dev-best-practices.md
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ keep image size small:
   another CI/CD pipeline to automatically build and tag a Docker image and test
   it.
 
-- Take this even further with by requiring  your development, testing, and
+- Take this even further by requiring your development, testing, and
   security teams to [sign images](../engine/reference/commandline/trust.md)
   before they are deployed into production. This way, before an image is
   deployed into production, it has been tested and signed off by, for instance,