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 ### Contract Flattening
 
-For ease of pubulishing, validation, and some other cases it's sometimes useful to "flatten" your contract into a single file.
+For ease of publishing, validation, and some other cases it's sometimes useful to "flatten" your contract into a single file.
 This combines your contract and any imported interfaces together in a way the compiler can understand.
 You can do so with a command like this: