The slowness of this query is more related to the negations than the fact that the query is uncached. Most uncached queries will be handled much more quickly. I

The slowness of this query is more related to the negations than the fact that the query is uncached. Most uncached queries will be handled much more quickly. I'm surprised this one takes so long, because I would have expected the negations to eliminate the corresponding branches of the OR during query simplification, but maybe there is some expansion happening before we get to that point that makes it hard to detect this logical conflict. Probably also the sheer frequency of the terms in the OR don't help. Normally "the" would be treated as a stopword (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_word). But I'm not sure if that logic applies when it appears alone in a sequence of terms (as when it's the child of an OR).