wiggle room

as in slack
an allowable margin of freedom or variation the language of the contract is vague and leaves too much wiggle room

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Recent Examples of wiggle room Fortunately, when a team gets to 21 games over .500, there's at least some wiggle room during the bad stretch(es). Tim Britton, New York Times, 20 June 2025 The new scholarship limit for baseball programs is now 34, leaving a ton of wiggle room. Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025 The Suns could look to salary-dump Allen ($16.9 million) or O'Neale ($10.1 million) to give themselves more wiggle room under the second apron, although the Brooklyn Nets are the only team with enough cap space to take the former without sending any salary back. Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025 There also needs to be always some wiggle room for the individual director to have a say. James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for wiggle room
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Noun
  • Without in-home help, and sometimes even with it, family caregivers − frequently mothers − often pick up the slack, switching jobs or leaving their careers behind to care for their kids with special needs.
    Kayla Jimenez, USA Today, 19 July 2025
  • Lower rates would not be very inflationary in an economy with substantial slack, but currently unemployment is low and businesses have little excess capacity.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • Lark Manor Arcel Double Dresser Dressers do a lot of heavy lifting when working with limited space.
    Jacqueline Tempera, People.com, 19 July 2025
  • Perry achieved massive virality in April for her brief space voyage alongside Gayle King and Jeff Bezos' then-fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, on the Amazon founder's Blue Origin NS-31 flight.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 19 July 2025

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“Wiggle room.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiggle%20room. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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