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@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ consistency checks with `check` on a much less frequent basis (e.g. with
 ### Consistency check configuration
 
 Another option is to customize your consistency checks. By default, if you
-omit consistency checks from configuration, borgmatic runs default consistency
-checks of full-repository checks (`repository`) and per-archive checks
-(`archives`) within each repository, no more than once a month. This is
-equivalent to what `borg check` does if run without options.
+omit consistency checks from configuration, borgmatic runs full-repository
+checks (`repository`) and per-archive checks (`archives`) within each
+repository, no more than once a month. This is equivalent to what `borg check`
+does if run without options.
 
 But if you find that archive checks are too slow, for example, you can
 configure borgmatic to run repository checks only. Configure this in the