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@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ pyenv global 3.11 3.12
 
 Whenever you run a command provided by a Python installation, these versions will be searched for it in the specified order.
 Versions selected with `pyenv shell` are searched first, then `pyenv local`, then `pyenv global`.
-[Due to the shims' fall-through behavior]((#understanding-python-version-selection)), "`system`" is always implicitly searched afterwards.
+[Due to the shims' fall-through behavior]((#understanding-python-version-selection)), `system` is always implicitly searched afterwards.
 
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