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Highlights in search results
Synonym highlighting is on by default. Highlight information is included in Amazon Kendra SDK and CLI query results. If you interact with Amazon Kendra using the SDK or CLI, you determine how to display results.
Synonym highlights will have the highlight type THESAURUS_SYNONYM. For more
information about highlights, see the Highlight object.
