diff --git a/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/added_vocabulary.rs b/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/added_vocabulary.rs
index bfbb4e0f..561f1adf 100644
--- a/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/added_vocabulary.rs
+++ b/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/added_vocabulary.rs
@@ -322,11 +322,7 @@ impl AddedVocabulary {
     /// This method returns a list "splits", each of them being a pair of Offsets
     /// and an optional ID if it is an AddedToken.
     /// The list of splits cover the entire input string.
-    fn find_matches<'a>(
-        &self,
-        sentence: &str,
-        split_re: &'a MatchingSet,
-    ) -> Vec<(Option<u32>, Offsets)> {
+    fn find_matches(&self, sentence: &str, split_re: &MatchingSet) -> Vec<(Option<u32>, Offsets)> {
         if sentence.is_empty() {
             return vec![(None, (0, 0))];
         }