hi @Gene_Mc !!
Weaviate will do a 2 phase process. It will first perform the search you requested (hybrid, near vector, etc), and subsequently it will pass over those objects to the reranker module to get them resorted.
So on your case, it will only perform the rerank over the 8 objects, as your limited for your query.
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Let me know if this helps!
Thanks!