diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index d063020..faa6084 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3665,17 +3665,16 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3e33ea271e53da683cd3439c04ff3b734f3d6052ea33a65ec9e0fa89a4f96369"
 dependencies = [
  "lazy_static",
- "thesaurus-wordnet",
+ "thesaurus-moby",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
-name = "thesaurus-wordnet"
+name = "thesaurus-moby"
 version = "0.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1e0b5b98479fc7554a0cedad4c03264b1caeecc7af51b4e44945c759bab43e35"
+checksum = "28f7806d5dbe7d9b627e332f88269a014a6a1d40ec411d4ea66cb702aabce4cf"
 dependencies = [
  "libflate",
- "serde_json",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 1d3411d..fd6e873 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -85,12 +85,9 @@ keyword_extraction = { version = "1.3.0", default-features = false, features = [
 
 ] }
 
-stop-words = { version = "0.8.0", default-features = false, features = [
-     "iso",
-]}
+stop-words = { version = "0.8.0", default-features = false, features = ["iso"] }
 thesaurus = { version = "0.5.2", default-features = false, optional = true, features = [
     "moby",
-    "static",
 ] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
@@ -131,6 +128,7 @@ rpath = false
 strip = "symbols"
 
 [features]
+use-synonyms-search = ["thesaurus/static"]
 default = ["memory-cache"]
 dhat-heap = ["dep:dhat"]
 memory-cache = ["dep:mini-moka"]
@@ -139,5 +137,4 @@ compress-cache-results = ["dep:async-compression", "dep:cfg-if"]
 encrypt-cache-results = ["dep:chacha20poly1305", "dep:chacha20"]
 cec-cache-results = ["compress-cache-results", "encrypt-cache-results"]
 experimental-io-uring = ["actix-web/experimental-io-uring"]
-use-synonyms-search = ["dep:thesaurus\static"]
-use-non-static-synonyms-search = ["dep:thesaurus"]
+use-non-static-synonyms-search = ["thesaurus"]
diff --git a/src/models/aggregation_models.rs b/src/models/aggregation_models.rs
index b0973d2..c046b1c 100644
--- a/src/models/aggregation_models.rs
+++ b/src/models/aggregation_models.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@
 use super::engine_models::EngineError;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use smallvec::SmallVec;
-#[cfg(feature = "use-synonyms-search")]
+#[cfg(any(
+    feature = "use-synonyms-search",
+    feature = "use-non-static-synonyms-search"
+))]
 use thesaurus::synonyms;
 /// A named struct to store the raw scraped search results scraped search results from the
 /// upstream search engines before aggregating it.It derives the Clone trait which is needed
@@ -254,7 +257,10 @@ fn calculate_tf_idf(
     let mut search_tokens = vec![];
 
     for token in query_tokens {
-        #[cfg(feature = "use-synonyms-search")]
+        #[cfg(any(
+            feature = "use-synonyms-search",
+            feature = "use-non-static-synonyms-search"
+        ))]
         {
             // find some synonyms and add them to the search  (from wordnet or moby if feature is enabled)
             let synonyms = synonyms(&token);