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 ### Establishing Defaults
 
 A good configuration system will support default values. A default value is not
-required for a key, but it's useful in the event that a key hasn’t be set via
+required for a key, but it's useful in the event that a key hasn’t been set via
 config file, environment variable, remote configuration or flag.
 
 Examples: