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-The Pact Broker is an application for sharing for consumer driven contracts and verification results. It is optimised for use with "pacts" (contracts created by the [Pact][pact-docs] framework), but can be used for any type of contract that can be serialized to JSON.
+The Pact Broker is an application for sharing of consumer driven contracts and verification results. It is optimised for use with "pacts" (contracts created by the [Pact][pact-docs] framework), but can be used for any type of contract that can be serialized to JSON.
 
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