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 === Searching for documents
-A very common use-case for elasticsearch is to sort through through large collections of documents in order to find ones that are relavent to a query. In most cases you will use the client's `search()` method to accomplish this.
+A very common use-case for elasticsearch is to sort through large collections of documents in order to find ones that are relavent to a query. In most cases you will use the client's `search()` method to accomplish this.
 
 ==== Elasticsearch Query DSL