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@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ With the above example, the webhook server scales `example-runners` by `1` repli
 
 Of note is the `HRA.spec.scaleUpTriggers[].duration` attribute. This attribute is used to calculate if the replica number added via the trigger is expired or not. On each reconciliation loop, the controller sums up all the non-expiring replica numbers from previous scale-up triggers. It then compares the summed desired replica number against the current replica number. If the summed desired replica number > the current number then it means the replica count needs to scale up.
 
-As mentioned previously, the `scaleDownDelaySecondsAfterScaleOut` property has the final say still. If the latest scale-up time + the anti-flapping duration is later than the current time, it doesn’t immediately scale up and instead retries the calculation again later to see if it needs to scale yet.
+As mentioned previously, the `scaleDownDelaySecondsAfterScaleOut` property has the final say still. If the latest scale-up time + the anti-flapping duration is later than the current time, it doesn’t immediately scale down and instead retries the calculation again later to see if it needs to scale yet.
 
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