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 ### ⚡ Cairo Sierra Emulator ⚡
 
-A virtual machine directly using the Cairo's intermediate representation "Sierra" instead of CASM.<br>
+An emulator directly using the Cairo's intermediate representation "Sierra" instead of CASM.<br>
 An useful usecase is to aid in debugging other Cairo related VMs.
 
 [Report Bug](https://github.com/lambdaclass/sierra-emu/issues/new) · [Request Feature](https://github.com/lambdaclass/sierra-emu/issues/new)