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 ### Examples of Service Discovery pull requests
 
-The exemples given might become out of date but should give a good impression about the areas touched by a new service discovery.
+The examples given might become out of date but should give a good impression about the areas touched by a new service discovery.
 
 - [Eureka](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/3369)