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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
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@@ -605,10 +605,13 @@ Removed
Use :meth:`~threading.Thread.is_alive()` instead.
(Contributed by Dong-hee Na in :issue:`37804`.)
-* Methods ``getchildren()`` and ``getiterator()`` in the
- :mod:`~xml.etree.ElementTree` module have been removed. They were
- deprecated in Python 3.2. Use functions :func:`list` and :func:`iter`
- instead. The ``xml.etree.cElementTree`` module has been removed.
+* Methods ``getchildren()`` and ``getiterator()`` of classes
+ :class:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree` and
+ :class:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.Element` in the :mod:`~xml.etree.ElementTree`
+ module have been removed. They were deprecated in Python 3.2.
+ Use ``iter(x)`` or ``list(x)`` instead of ``x.getchildren()`` and
+ ``x.iter()`` or ``list(x.iter())`` instead of ``x.getiterator()``.
+ The ``xml.etree.cElementTree`` module has been removed.
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`36543`.)
* The old :mod:`plistlib` API has been removed, it was deprecated since Python