statistically improbable phrase

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Noun[edit]

statistically improbable phrase (plural statistically improbable phrases)

  1. A sequence of words occurring exclusively in a certain set of documents, or more commonly in those documents than in wider usage.
    The phrase "computationally impractical to reverse" is a statistically improbable phrase found in the Bitcoin documentation.