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diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
index 578fcc6e293..cd925a92a53 100644
--- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
@@ -440,8 +440,9 @@ Directory and files operations
Platform-dependent efficient copy operations
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Starting from Python 3.8 all functions involving a file copy (:func:`copyfile`,
-:func:`copy`, :func:`copy2`, :func:`copytree`, and :func:`move`) may use
+Starting from Python 3.8, all functions involving a file copy
+(:func:`copyfile`, :func:`~shutil.copy`, :func:`copy2`,
+:func:`copytree`, and :func:`move`) may use
platform-specific "fast-copy" syscalls in order to copy the file more
efficiently (see :issue:`33671`).
"fast-copy" means that the copying operation occurs within the kernel, avoiding