diff --git a/doc/source/user_guide/basics.rst b/doc/source/user_guide/basics.rst
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--- a/doc/source/user_guide/basics.rst
+++ b/doc/source/user_guide/basics.rst
@@ -1213,12 +1213,6 @@ With a DataFrame, you can simultaneously reindex the index and columns:
    df
    df.reindex(index=["c", "f", "b"], columns=["three", "two", "one"])
 
-You may also use ``reindex`` with an ``axis`` keyword:
-
-.. ipython:: python
-
-   df.reindex(["c", "f", "b"], axis="index")
-
 Note that the ``Index`` objects containing the actual axis labels can be
 **shared** between objects. So if we have a Series and a DataFrame, the
 following can be done: