diff --git a/verible/common/text/BUILD b/verible/common/text/BUILD
index d30be15fa..2122be388 100644
--- a/verible/common/text/BUILD
+++ b/verible/common/text/BUILD
@@ -177,7 +177,6 @@ cc_library(
     deps = [
         ":symbol",
         ":token-info",
-        "@abseil-cpp//absl/strings:string_view",
     ],
 )
 
diff --git a/verible/common/text/tree-compare.cc b/verible/common/text/tree-compare.cc
index a30829917..8ef5b117b 100644
--- a/verible/common/text/tree-compare.cc
+++ b/verible/common/text/tree-compare.cc
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 
 #include "verible/common/text/tree-compare.h"
 
-#include "absl/strings/string_view.h"
 #include "verible/common/text/symbol.h"
 #include "verible/common/text/token-info.h"