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 or by passing JWK as a simple Hash
 
 ```
-jwks = { keys: [{ ... }] } # keys needs to be Symbol
+jwks = { keys: [{ ... }] } # keys accepts both of string and symbol
 JWT.decode(token, nil, true, { algorithms: ['RS512'], jwks: jwks})
 ```