diff --git a/newsfragments/215.bugfix.rst b/newsfragments/215.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..18cff10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsfragments/215.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Set minimum version of more-itertools to 8.5
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diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e58b81e..d532e7f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 requires-python = ">=3.8"
 dependencies = [
-	"more_itertools",
+	"more_itertools >= 8.5.0",
 	"typeguard >= 4.0.1",
 	"typing_extensions ; python_version<'3.9'",
 ]