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 ### Security
 
-Parsedownw does not sanitize the outut HTML. When you deal with untrusted content (ex: user commnets) you should also use a HTML sanitizer like [HTML Purifier](http://htmlpurifier.org/).
+Parsedown does not sanitize the HTML that it generates. When you deal with untrusted content (ex: user commnets) you should also use a HTML sanitizer like [HTML Purifier](http://htmlpurifier.org/).
 
 ### Questions