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@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Types are *inferred*, which means that specifying types of variables or returned
 
 <sup>Note: While primitives types (`String`, `int`, `double`, `boolean`, `float`) will be transpiled to their equivalents for the target of the transpiler, this is not the case for other types.<sup>
 
-Every variable has a static type by default; it is possible to make a **non-final** variable dynamic by adding `dyn`/`dynamic` to the attributes or making it the return type:
+Every variable has a static type by default at compile time; it is possible to make a **non-final** variable dynamic by adding `dyn`/`dynamic` to the attributes or making it the return type:
 ```
 dyn helloWorld = 0 # helloWorld: dyn = 0 would also work
 helloWorld = "Hello, World!"