doc: revise deepEqual() legacy assertion mode text

* Remove "potentially". It's arguably misplaced and certainly unnecessary. * Use italics for words-as-words usage of _Deep equality_ rather than using quotation marks. PR-URL: #31704 Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>
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@@ -196,9 +196,9 @@ An alias of [`assert.deepStrictEqual()`][].
 
 Tests for deep equality between the `actual` and `expected` parameters. Consider
 using [`assert.deepStrictEqual()`][] instead. [`assert.deepEqual()`][] can have
-potentially surprising results.
+surprising results.
 
-"Deep" equality means that the enumerable "own" properties of child objects
+_Deep equality_ means that the enumerable "own" properties of child objects
 are also recursively evaluated by the following rules.
 
 ### Comparison details