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+### What it does
+Checks for dereferencing expressions which would be covered by auto-deref.
+
+### Why is this bad?
+This unnecessarily complicates the code.
+
+### Example
+```
+let x = String::new();
+let y: &str = &*x;
+```
+Use instead:
+```
+let x = String::new();
+let y: &str = &x;
+```
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