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 # sbom-utility
 
 The **`sbom-utility`** was designed to be an API platform to validate, analyze and edit **Bills-of-Materials (BOMs)**. Initially, it was created to **validate** either CycloneDX *or* SPDX-formatted BOMs against official, versioned JSON schemas as published by their respective standards communities.
 
-- *Organizations may also design and supply **"custom JSON schema"** variants to the validate command which are perhaps designed to assure additional data-compliance requirements are met.*
+- *Organizations may also design and supply **"custom JSON schema"** variants to the validate command which are perhaps designed to enforce additional data-compliance requirements.*
 
 The utility also offers commands that support analysis and editing of BOM document data including **trim**, **patch** (IETF RFC 6902) and **diff** *(experimental)*.