Similar to an SQL LEFT OUTER JOIN, $lookup allows you to incorporate documents from another collection. The following example shows a purchases document with an embedded joined customers document. In this example, there are three stages: $lookup, $limit, and $project. Note that in the $project stage we suppress the already embedded customer field as it only contains a partial subset of customer information:
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