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  User setup impacting the <b>Pending Matches</b> selection:
  <ul>
    <li>Matching Distance Thresholds</li>
    <li>Matching Distance Weights</li>
    <li>Automatic Matching Threshold</li>
    <li>Number of Potential Matches</li>
  </ul>
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 **Pending matches**  are identified as matches where their keys' distances fell below user-defined thresholds, yet their matching scores were lower than the set Automatic Matching score.

These matches were  **not (or not yet) manually approved or rejected**  within the  Manual matching application, hence they remain unmatched.

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For a single primary observation, multiple potential matches may be identified. The top n matches, where n is user-defined in the Project Setup interface, are retained.
