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 ### Preload
 
-You can use the `--require` (`-r`) [command line option](https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_r_require_module) to preload dotenv & dotenv-
-. By doing this, you do not need to require and load dotenv or dotenv-expand in your application code. This is the preferred approach when using `import` instead of `require`.
+You can use the `--require` (`-r`) [command line option](https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_r_require_module) to preload dotenv & dotenv-expand. By doing this, you do not need to require and load dotenv or dotenv-expand in your application code. This is the preferred approach when using `import` instead of `require`.
 
 ```bash
 $ node -r dotenv-expand/config your_script.js