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 One of pydantics most useful applications is to define default settings, allow them to be overridden by
-environment variables are keyword arguments (eg. in unit tests).
+environment variables or keyword arguments (eg. in unit tests).
 
 This usage example comes last as it uses numerous concepts described above.