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 ## Use Client
 
 
-The LiveQuery client interface is based around the concept of `Subscriptions`. You can register any `ParseQuery` for live updates from the associated live query server, by simply calling `subscribe()` on a the client:
+The LiveQuery client interface is based around the concept of `Subscriptions`. You can register any `ParseQuery` for live updates from the associated live query server, by simply calling `subscribe()` on the client:
 ```java
 // Parse.initialize should be called first