diff --git a/stew/shims/atomics.nim b/stew/shims/atomics.nim
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-{.deprecated: "use std/atomics".}
-import std/concurrency/atomics
-export atomics
diff --git a/stew/shims/enumutils.nim b/stew/shims/enumutils.nim
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-{.deprecated: "use std/enumutils".}
-import std/enumutils
-export enumutils
diff --git a/stew/shims/stddefects.nim b/stew/shims/stddefects.nim
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-{.deprecated: "Nim 1.4 and newer support FooDefect directly".}
diff --git a/stew/shims/typetraits.nim b/stew/shims/typetraits.nim
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-{.deprecated: "use std/typetraits".}
-import std/typetraits
-export typetraits