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@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Features
 Example
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-The following eample application uses the `aiohttp <http://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/>`_
+The following example application uses the `aiohttp <http://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/>`_
 framework for asyncio:
 
 .. code:: python