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 title: Usage
-description: "Use the SDK to manually capture errors and other events."
+description: "Use the SDK to capture errors and other events."
 sidebar_order: 10
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-Sentry's SDK hooks into your runtime environment and automatically reports errors, uncaught exceptions, and unhandled rejections as well as other types of errors depending on the platform.
+Sentry's SDK hooks into your runtime environment, letting recover from panics and also manually capture and report errors and other events.
 
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 Key terms:
 
-- An _event_ is one instance of sending data to Sentry. Generally, this data is an error or exception.
+- An _event_ is one instance of sending data to Sentry. Generally, this data is an error or panic.
 - An _issue_ is a grouping of similar events.
 - The reporting of an event is called _capturing_.
   When an event is captured, it’s sent to Sentry.