diff --git a/docs/reference/query-dsl/match-query.asciidoc b/docs/reference/query-dsl/match-query.asciidoc
index 890026cba4e..1f8bf6892ab 100644
--- a/docs/reference/query-dsl/match-query.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/query-dsl/match-query.asciidoc
@@ -60,9 +60,6 @@ Note that fuzzy matching is not applied to terms with synonyms, as under the hoo
 these terms are expanded to a special synonym query that blends term frequencies,
 which does not support fuzzy expansion.
 
-Here is an example when providing additional parameters (note the slight
-change in structure, `message` is the field name):
-
 [source,js]
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 GET /_search