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Recent Examples of wiggle room
This leaves a lot of wiggle room as to what size bag counts as a personal item.
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Ryan Krogh, Outside Online, 30 Apr. 2025
Unlike in many of his previous starts this season, Crochet had plenty of wiggle room to work with.
—Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Leave a little wiggle room in your schedule to explore the unexpected.
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—Amplified Content Studio, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
The administration acknowledged that Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported last month, but a Supreme Court order has provided wiggle room around the efforts to return him.
—Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 16 Apr. 2025
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Ryan Krogh, Outside Online, 30 Apr. 2025
Unlike in many of his previous starts this season, Crochet had plenty of wiggle room to work with.
—Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Leave a little wiggle room in your schedule to explore the unexpected.
5.
—Amplified Content Studio, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
The administration acknowledged that Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported last month, but a Supreme Court order has provided wiggle room around the efforts to return him.
—Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 16 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wiggle room
Noun
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Israel’s campaign in Gaza The influential pan-Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera aired on a loop what appeared to be mobile phone footage of the gunman, wearing a suit jacket and slacks, being pulled away after the shooting, his hands behind his back.—
Maya Sweedler,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2025
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Israel’s campaign in Gaza The influential pan-Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera aired on a loop what appeared to be mobile phone footage of the alleged gunman, wearing a suit jacket and slacks, being pulled away after the shooting, his hands behind his back.—
Maya Sweedler,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
Noun
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Deloitte effectively signaled its entry into the intercollegiate athletics space last July by co-sponsoring the annual convention of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
1 June 2025
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But expect to see this kind of thing happen more and more in the leak space and become more and more convincing as a result.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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“Wiggle room.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiggle%20room. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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