diff --git a/content/en/docs/concepts/services-networking/service.md b/content/en/docs/concepts/services-networking/service.md
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@@ -158,9 +158,9 @@ Each port definition can have the same `protocol`, or a different one.
 
 ### Services without selectors
 
-Services most commonly abstract access to Kubernetes Pods, but they can also
-abstract other kinds of backends.
-For example:
+Services most commonly abstract access to Kubernetes Pods thanks to the selector,
+but when used with a corresponding Endpoints object and without a selector, the Service can abstract other kinds of backends, 
+including ones that run outside the cluster. For example:
 
 * You want to have an external database cluster in production, but in your
   test environment you use your own databases.