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[DOCS] Query strings are normalized for fuzzy (~) operator (#73921)

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Notes that `fuzzy` queries made using the query string query's `~`
operator are normalized.

Closes #73299
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[[query-string-fuzziness]]
====== Fuzziness
We can search for terms that are
similar to, but not exactly like our search terms, using the ``fuzzy''
operator:
You can run <<query-dsl-fuzzy-query,`fuzzy` queries>> using the `~` operator:
quikc~ brwn~ foks~
This uses the
For these queries, the query string is <<analysis-normalizers,normalized>>. If
present, only certain filters from the analyzer are applied. For a list of
applicable filters, see <<analysis-normalizers>>.
The query uses the
{wikipedia}/Damerau-Levenshtein_distance[Damerau-Levenshtein distance]
to find all terms with a maximum of
two changes, where a change is the insertion, deletion