diff --git a/docs/source/contributing/testing.md b/docs/source/contributing/testing.md
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@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ These fixtures are defined in `tests/fixtures.py`.
 
 ### Overriding Fixtures
 
-Pytest allows you to locally override fixtures, which can be especially practical when you wish
+Pytest allows you to locally override fixtures, which can be especially handy when you wish
 to restrict the target selection of a test.
 For example, the following test overrides `target` using a parametrization mark,
 and uses this in combination with the `gen_config` fixture, which now