diff --git a/nlp-service/requirements.txt b/nlp-service/requirements.txt
index adc741f..2f56b04 100644
--- a/nlp-service/requirements.txt
+++ b/nlp-service/requirements.txt
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ scikit-learn==1.9.0
 # nltk: required by rake-nltk (stopwords + punkt tokenizer data).
 nltk==3.10.3
 # Part 2b: fast Levenshtein/Jaro-Winkler matching for entity resolution.
-rapidfuzz>=3.14.5
+rapidfuzz>=3.14.6
 # Recovers truncated JSON from Gemini 2.5 Flash repetition-loop bug
 # (see issue in repo) — salvages already-billed output on parse failure.
 json-repair>=0.61.7