Ok, I understand now - of course, it's being used for both. How about mentioning that in the beginning:

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 * Verifies deployments or undeployments via inspection of ZooKeeper paths...
```

...or maybe just "Verifies deployment *states*...."

Then, I would just include the word "still" here:

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 * is not present (in the case of create or deploy) or is *still* present
```