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@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ TSLint is a fantastic tool. It is a linter that was written specifically to work
 
 One advantage is there is no tooling required to reconcile differences between AST formats, but the major disadvantage is that the tool is therefore unable to reuse any of the previous work which has been done in the JavaScript ecosystem around linting, and it has to reimplement everything from scratch. Everything from rules to auto-fixing capabilities and more.
 
-Palantir, the backers behind TSLint announced earlier this year that **they would be deprecating TSLint in favor of supporting `typescript-eslint`** in order to benefit the community. You can read more about that here: https://medium.com/palantir/tslint-in-2019-1a144c2317a9
+Palantir, the backers behind TSLint announced in 2019 that **they would be deprecating TSLint in favor of supporting `typescript-eslint`** in order to benefit the community. You can read more about that here: https://medium.com/palantir/tslint-in-2019-1a144c2317a9
 
 The TypeScript Team themselves also announced their plans to move the TypeScript codebase from TSLint to `typescript-eslint`, and they have been big supporters of this project. More details at https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/30553