diff --git a/docs/user-guide/volumes.md b/docs/user-guide/volumes.md
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--- a/docs/user-guide/volumes.md
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ assignees:
 On-disk files in a container are ephemeral, which presents some problems for
 non-trivial applications when running in containers.  First, when a container
 crashes kubelet will restart it, but the files will be lost - the
-container starts with a clean slate.  Second, when running containers together
+container starts with a clean state.  Second, when running containers together
 in a `Pod` it is often necessary to share files between those containers.  The
 Kubernetes `Volume` abstraction solves both of these problems.