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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elbow room
Noun
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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
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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
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By now, many of you have heard that The Courier Journal is moving out of our historic office building and into a new space closer to the river this week.—
Ray Padilla,
The Courier-Journal,
10 Sep. 2025
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Stradivarius and Pull&Bear both moved to larger spaces, and the group also debuted its first Bershka store.—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Elbow room.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elbow%20room. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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