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Update Fuzzy Query docs to clarify default behavior re max_expansions (#30819) 

Stating that the Fuzzy Query generates "all possible" matching terms is misleading, given that the query's default behavior is to generate a maximum of 50 matching terms.

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w-bonelli 2018-07-30 15:48:14 -04:00 committed by Julie Tibshirani
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@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ The fuzzy query uses similarity based on Levenshtein edit distance.
==== String fields
The `fuzzy` query generates all possible matching terms that are within the
The `fuzzy` query generates matching terms that are within the
maximum edit distance specified in `fuzziness` and then checks the term
dictionary to find out which of those generated terms actually exist in the
index.
index. The final query uses up to `max_expansions` matching terms.
Here is a simple example: