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-Checks types passed to the json encoding functions. Reports unsupported types and reports occations, where the check for the returned error can be omited.
+Checks types passed to the json encoding functions. Reports unsupported types and reports occurrences where the check for the returned error can be omitted.
 
 Consider this [http.Handler](https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#Handler):