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diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst
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@@ -310,8 +310,8 @@ impossible to detect the termination of alien threads.
Return whether the thread is alive.
- Roughly, a thread is alive from the moment the :meth:`start` method
- returns until its :meth:`run` method terminates. The module function
+ This method returns ``True`` just before the :meth:`run` method starts
+ until just after the :meth:`run` method terminates. The module function
:func:`.enumerate` returns a list of all alive threads.
.. attribute:: daemon