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Recent Examples of elbow room
After having their second child in February last year, Zachary and Victoria Glasser needed a little more elbow room.
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Lily O'Neill, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2026
The angle of the open tent top will cut into the 48-in (122-cm) width, affecting the shoulder and elbow room of whoever's sleeping next to it, but IO compensates by giving the fabric entry-side wall a similar angle.
—New Atlas, 20 Feb. 2026
The reason Georgia’s latest winter bash looked nothing like 2014’s Snowmageddon is because most people left elbow room for crews to treat the roads and did not weigh down first responders with dozens of crashes.
—Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 15 Feb. 2026
Cleo loves that her new office overlooks the addition’s main dance studio, which is generously spaced with 28-foot-high ceilings and 1,400-square-foot of elbow room.
—John Wenzel, Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2026
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Lily O'Neill, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2026
The angle of the open tent top will cut into the 48-in (122-cm) width, affecting the shoulder and elbow room of whoever's sleeping next to it, but IO compensates by giving the fabric entry-side wall a similar angle.
—New Atlas, 20 Feb. 2026
The reason Georgia’s latest winter bash looked nothing like 2014’s Snowmageddon is because most people left elbow room for crews to treat the roads and did not weigh down first responders with dozens of crashes.
—Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 15 Feb. 2026
Cleo loves that her new office overlooks the addition’s main dance studio, which is generously spaced with 28-foot-high ceilings and 1,400-square-foot of elbow room.
—John Wenzel, Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elbow room
Noun
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Keep your tone calm, but don’t leave room for confusion.—
Tarot.com,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 Apr. 2026
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The way the Met has chosen to deal with this is to toss the Vatican frescoes onto all four walls of a side room via projector.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Noun
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By combining the material with airy grasses and perennials, Grace has designed a soft-looking, drought-tolerant space that's also easygoing.—
Elizabeth Jardina,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Apr. 2026
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On many systems, deleting them merely removes their addresses from a registry, freeing the space to be overwritten.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Elbow room.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elbow%20room. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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