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 ### Connecting with default MongoDB database
 
-In order to look up content of default MongoDB database, you can retreive `MONGO_URI` by running following command: ````meteor mongo -U````
+In order to look up content of default MongoDB database, you can retrieve `MONGO_URI` by running following command: ````meteor mongo -U````