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Rewrite the following sentence correctly. Do not make unnecessary changes.

He is one of the shrewdest men that is in the administration.

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The use of "is" is ungrammatical as the reference is to the plural "men". It should be changed to "are":
He is one of the shrewdest men that are in the administration.

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