diff --git a/code/functions/search-query/test/nu/marginalia/functions/searchquery/query_parser/model/QWordGraphTest.java b/code/functions/search-query/test/nu/marginalia/functions/searchquery/query_parser/model/QWordGraphTest.java
index f985cd13..df4da566 100644
--- a/code/functions/search-query/test/nu/marginalia/functions/searchquery/query_parser/model/QWordGraphTest.java
+++ b/code/functions/search-query/test/nu/marginalia/functions/searchquery/query_parser/model/QWordGraphTest.java
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ class QWordGraphTest {
         assertEquals("a b ( c | d )", graph.compileToQuery());
     }
 
-    @Test
+    @Test // this test is a bit flaky, the order of the variants is not guaranteed
     void testCompile5() {
         // Construct a graph like
 
diff --git a/code/functions/search-query/test/nu/marginalia/query/svc/QueryFactoryTest.java b/code/functions/search-query/test/nu/marginalia/query/svc/QueryFactoryTest.java
index 1576fd85..4310e89d 100644
--- a/code/functions/search-query/test/nu/marginalia/query/svc/QueryFactoryTest.java
+++ b/code/functions/search-query/test/nu/marginalia/query/svc/QueryFactoryTest.java
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ public class QueryFactoryTest {
         {
             // tde isn't a stopword, so we should get the normal behavior
             var specs = parseAndGetSpecs("\"tde shining\"");
-            assertEquals("tde shining", specs.query.compiledQuery);
+            assertEquals("( shining tde | tde_shining )", specs.query.compiledQuery);
             assertEquals(List.of("tde_shining"), specs.query.searchTermsAdvice);
             assertEquals(List.of(List.of("tde", "shining")), specs.query.searchTermCoherences);
         }
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ public class QueryFactoryTest {
     @Test
     public void testExpansion3() {
         long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
-        var subquery = parseAndGetSpecs("plato's republic").query;
+        var subquery = parseAndGetSpecs("buy rimonabant buy acomplia");
         System.out.println("Time: " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - start));
         System.out.println(subquery);
     }