diff --git a/share/man/man9/mbuf.9 b/share/man/man9/mbuf.9
index 12e0c94e719a..48ee8ac52724 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/mbuf.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/mbuf.9
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ See above.
 .Vt Mbufs
 appeared in an early version of
 .Bx .
-Besides for being used for network packets, they were used
+Besides being used for network packets, they were used
 to store various dynamic structures, such as routing table
 entries, interface addresses, protocol control blocks, etc.
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