diff --git a/priorities/rocky-priorities.rst b/priorities/rocky-priorities.rst
index 4cf54e3b..0cea3d90 100644
--- a/priorities/rocky-priorities.rst
+++ b/priorities/rocky-priorities.rst
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Details
 Deploy Steps
 ------------
 
-We created cleaning with the the ability to compose an ordered list of
+We created cleaning with the ability to compose an ordered list of
 actions to be taken. However we left deployment as a static set of actions.
 
 In order to allow templates to apply using chosen traits, we want to have
diff --git a/specs/approved/deployment-steps-framework.rst b/specs/approved/deployment-steps-framework.rst
index dd8bf578..2ce8ae85 100644
--- a/specs/approved/deployment-steps-framework.rst
+++ b/specs/approved/deployment-steps-framework.rst
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ with ``@deploy_step``, defined in ironic/drivers/base.py as follows::
     """Decorator for deployment steps.
 
     :param priority: an integer priority; used for determining the order in
-        which the step is run in the the deployment process. (See below,
+        which the step is run in the deployment process. (See below,
         "When are deploy steps executed" for more details.)
     :param argsinfo: a dictionary of keyword arguments where key is the name of
         the argument and value is a dictionary as follows: