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-The Sidecar Container is an instantiation of the sidecar pattern. An application deployed on a second container will run side by side and share its lifecycle with a primary application running on a main container.
+The Sidecar Container is an implementation of the sidecar pattern. An application deployed on a second container will run side by side and share its lifecycle with a primary application running on a main container.
 
 ## Problem it addresses