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adverb

significantly

CEFR B2

in a statistically significant way

In a sentence

Six example sentences with significantly, each labelled with its topic.

  • Students who slept eight hours recalled significantly more of the word list, and the effect held across three separate cohorts.

    Psychology

  • Across four thousand patients the vaccinated group fell ill significantly less often, a gap the trial statisticians called unambiguous.

    Medicine

  • Regions that received the grant grew significantly faster than matched regions nearby, and that gap survived every control tested.

    Economics

  • Plants given the extra nitrogen grew significantly taller, and the difference held when the trial was repeated in a second greenhouse.

    Science

  • In the split test, customers shown the green button bought significantly more often, and the gap was far too large to be chance.

    Business

  • Across ten seasons of data, teams shot significantly better at home, a gap the analysts could not explain by travel alone.

    Basketball

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