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 ### Use-Case: Consume ConfigMap in environment variables
 
-ConfigMaps can be used to populate the value of command line arguments.  As an example, consider
+ConfigMaps can be used to populate environment variables.  As an example, consider
 the following ConfigMap:
 
 ```yaml