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@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ decide if they want to make the shutdown timeout configurable.
 ### ForceFlush
 
 This method provides a way for provider to notify the registered
-[MetricReader](#metricreader) instances that have a related 
+[MetricReader](#metricreader) instances that have a related
 [Push Metric Exporters](#push-metric-exporter), so they can do as much
 as they could to collect and send the metrics.