diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
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--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
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@@ -1348,7 +1348,7 @@
 Loading shared libraries
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-There are several ways to loaded shared libraries into the Python process.  One
+There are several ways to load shared libraries into the Python process.  One
 way is to instantiate one of the following classes: