Thesaurus results for WIGGLE ROOM

wiggle room

noun

Definition of wiggle room next

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 The knit material is breathable and flexible, while the square toe gives your feet a little extra wiggle room while on the go. —

Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2026 Trump has praised Warsh since his selection in January, and some of the nominee’s policy proposals are designed to give the Fed more wiggle room to decide on potential rate cuts. —

Tristan Bove, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026 Part-timers will have to factor in the cost of the tax in their best and final offers, while someone who actually wants to live in that duplex on lower Fifth has wiggle room to outbid them. —

Clio Chang, Curbed, 27 Apr. 2026 Yeah, there’s some wiggle room as each player is his own story. —

Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for wiggle room

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Harry wore a blue shirt with a kaleidoscopic necktie and black slacks, accessorized at first with a red leather jacket.

— Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2026
And those problems are magnified in the slack middle section of this 160-minute film, as the hunters make discoveries of their own in the forest, unnecessary subplots and aliens multiply, and there are some halfhearted attempts at giving them a thin backstory.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 May 2026