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 # Whitespace tokenizer
 
-The `whitespace` tokenizer splits text on white space characters, such as spaces, tabs, and new lines. It treats each word separated by white space as a token and does not perform any additional analysis or normalization like lowercasing or punctuation removal.
+The `whitespace` tokenizer splits text at white space characters, such as spaces, tabs, and new lines. It treats each word separated by white space as a token and does not perform any additional analysis or normalization like lowercasing or punctuation removal.
 
 ## Example usage