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 ### Summary
 
-In this section we saw how we can use `for` loops to go through elements of a list and perform the same operation on each.  By using `for` loops we were able to reduce the amount of code that we wrote and while also writing more expressive code.
+In this section we saw how we can use `for` loops to go through elements of a list and perform the same operation on each.  By using `for` loops we were able to reduce the amount of code that we wrote and write more expressive code.