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Hi folks, some of our users like to use lists of phrases inside parens but we get odd behavior on this one:

(dispensing fee,dispensing fees) w/25 pharma*
Finds just 28 bills.

But "dispensing fees" w/25 pharma by itself finds 76
Maybe the parens interacting with the proximity is the problem.

I sent an email with more detail about the context, our APICP settings etc.

Each item in a parenthetical list is treated as a phrase, which is not happening in your second (unparenthesized) example. This is restricting the result set, since the words in a phrase must be found adjacent and in order, unlike the second example, where `dispensing' and `fees' may be found anywhere and in any order in the document.