Phrases

Every phrasing that survived full-text verification. Search hits are always higher than sentences, because Europe PMC's index ignores stopwords: it cannot tell not quite significant from quite significant, so every hit is confirmed against the actual full text before it appears here.

Confirmed specimens

56 phrases sighted in the wild by Matthew Hankins, with the p-value attached

Phrase	Sentences	Papers	Search hits
only marginally significant	3,408	3,408	5,448
quite significant	3,374	3,374	6,904
nearly significant	2,281	2,281	3,797
moderately significant	1,498	1,498	2,548
might be significant	1,478	1,478	8,858
slightly significant	1,025	1,025	2,126
not quite significant	451	451	6,904
might not be significant	411	411	18,705
not yet significant	206	206	12,442
more or less significant	185	185	382
probably not significant	175	175	1,560
not significantly significant	113	113	1,046
modest significance	111	111	172
hardly significant	109	109	190
probable significance	86	86	163
a tendency toward statistical significance	71	71	162
slight significance	63	63	194
a trend approaching significance	52	52	121
a trend level of significance	52	52	151
significantly not different	52	52	21,921
a slight significance	46	46	194
partial significance	42	42	79
at the edge of significance	35	35	225
a weakly significant difference	33	33	78
not strictly significant	33	33	108
noticeably significant	32	32	103
completely significant	27	27	76
closer to significance	26	26	53
essentially significant	25	25	71
almost not significant	17	17	3,083
a minor significance	17	17	672
possibly not significant	16	16	867
not entirely significant	14	14	52
a weak trend toward significance	13	13	18
not fully statistically significant	13	13	32
close to achieving significance	11	11	16
shy of significance	8	8	48
slightly failed to reach statistical significance	8	8	17
very non-significant	7	7	15
significantly borderline	5	5	23
relatively close to significance	4	4	6
roughly significant	4	4	6
utterly significant	4	4	7
at the cutoff for significance	3	3	1,504
perhaps marginally significant	3	3	4
somewhat statistically significant	2	2	6
an approach towards significance	1	1	2
a p value reaching toward significance	1	1	1
moderately close to significance	1	1	1
only slightly non-significant	1	1	6
significant at the 0.2 level of significance	1	1	1
significantly non-significant	1	1	11
statistically close to significance	1	1	3
trended close to being significant	1	1	1
we defined alpha > 0.4 as acceptable	1	1	1
reaching toward significance	0	0	1

Also found

4 further phrasings

Phrase	Sentences	Papers	Search hits
a nonsignificant trend	1	1	7,015
only slightly significant	1	1	163
practically significant	1	1	1,897
marginally significant	0	0	35,453