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-You are reading a draft of the next documentation and it's in continuos update so
+You are reading a draft of the next documentation and it's in continuous update so
 if you don't find what you need please refer to:
 [C++ wrapper classes for the ABI-stable C APIs for Node.js](https://nodejs.github.io/node-addon-api/)