diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index a591b36..4327793 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ Suggests:
 LinkingTo: 
     Rcpp
 Encoding: UTF-8
-LazyData: true
 RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
 SystemRequirements: C++11
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 29a244b..b29e42e 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 - Transition to curl package and drop RCurl dependency
 - Fix fontface not being processed and words spaced properly in R 4.2.0
 - Maintainer changes to Brenton Wiernik
+- Removed LazyData from package DESCRIPTION to fix CRAN NOTE
 
 # gridtext 0.1.4