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[Docs] Clarify ignore_above behaviour (elastic#79705)
Clarify that `keyword` fields that exceed the optional `ignore_above` setting are inlcuded in the `_ignored` fields since 7.14. Closes elastic#79605
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docs/reference/mapping/fields/ignored-field.asciidoc

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=== `_ignored` field
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The `_ignored` field indexes and stores the names of every field in a document
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that has been ignored because it was malformed and
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<<ignore-malformed,`ignore_malformed`>> was turned on.
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that has been ignored when the document was indexed. This can, for example,
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be the case when the field was malformed and <<ignore-malformed,`ignore_malformed`>>
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was turned on, or when a `keyword` fields value exceeds its optional
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<<ignore-above,`ignore_above`>> setting.
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This field is searchable with <<query-dsl-term-query,`term`>>,
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<<query-dsl-terms-query,`terms`>> and <<query-dsl-exists-query,`exists`>>

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