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 === Span Multi Term Query
 
 The `span_multi` query allows you to wrap a `multi term query` (one of wildcard,
-fuzzy, prefix, term, range or regexp query) as a `span query`, so
+fuzzy, prefix, range or regexp query) as a `span query`, so
 it can be nested. Example:
 
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