elbow room

as in room
an extent or area available for or used up by some activity or thing help me move the furniture so that we'll have enough elbow room to do some aerobics

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Recent Examples of elbow room An Apple dancer was holding up a giant banner and making elbow room scarce, which the internet seemed to think was more bratty than brat. Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 3 May 2025 Cosmic Guitar Even with a seemingly infinite amount of elbow room, sometimes galaxies stick together thanks to gravity. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Apr. 2025 With that extra elbow room, Numarine was able to revamp the aft and beach club area. Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2025 If the spot will be used for morning meditation or movement, outfit the room with the proper furnishings and make sure there is enough elbow room for its intended purpose. Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for elbow room
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Noun
  • The most notorious, in 1978, saw the late queen hide behind a bush in the gardens of Buckingham Palace to avoid Nicolae Ceaușescu, having already removed anything that the Romanian dictator could steal from his room following a warning from Giscard d'Estaing, the then French president.
    Ian King, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In follow-up comments, the original poster noted that their roommate had already claimed the larger room.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • More than 100 Jilin remote sensing satellites have been launched, designed to acquire information from space via remote instruments.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • While central bank policy will have an important impact on the crypto markets, innovation in the space will be the driving force behind changes in asset prices, claimed Colkitt.
    Charles Lloyd Bovaird II, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Elbow room.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elbow%20room. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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