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 Flattens an array.
 
-Using a new array we concatinate it with the spread input array causing a shallow flatten
+Using a new array we concatinate it with the spread input array causing a shallow denesting of any contained arrays
 
 ```js
 const flatten = arr => [ ].concat( ...arr );