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-    <p>A function that joins the a sequence of messages into a single message.</p>
+    <p>A function that joins a sequence of messages into a single message.</p>
     <p>When paired with the <b>split</b> node, it will automatically join the messages
     to reverse the split that was performed.</p>
     <p>The node can join either a specific property of each received message or,