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wiggle room

noun

Definition of 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 While Detroit currently has enough financial wiggle room to not worry about exceeding the luxury tax, there is the NBA repeater tax levied to teams that go over the luxury tax in at least three out of four seasons. — Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Look for a shoe that fits extremely snug, almost like a second skin, and leaves way less wiggle room for your toes than a comparable road-running shoe. — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026 Build in wiggle room for unexpected costs and future inflation. — Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026 Crop prices are set months in advance — which doesn't leave much wiggle room when fuel prices rise. — Willa Rubin, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for wiggle room

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Bond yields offered some slack on Tuesday after falling back from their highest levels in years or even decades.

— Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
But Canales said his O-line ones and twos picked up the slack all game.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of slack

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Their role becomes clear at 21-, 36- and 52-Across, where the clues solve to partial entries, which can be completed only by using the entry spaces of those dash clues.

— Sam Corbin, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2026
With interiors by AvroKO, this ten-room property features both garden-view and riverside rooms, cozy fireplaces, a two-bedroom suite with its own Miele kitchen, and communal spaces including library, parlor, and coffee bar.

— Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026

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