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@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ Theme structure is available [here](https://github.com/nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim
 lualine defines two kinds of separators:
 
 - `section_separators`    - separators between sections
-- `components_separators` - separators between the different components in sections
+- `component_separators` - separators between the different components in sections
 
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