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Recent Examples of wiggle room
There’s a bit of wiggle room in some areas, but WGAW management largely views that proposal as their best and final.
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Katie Campione, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2026
With a one-vote margin previously in the Senate and with Sine Die, the last day of the legislative session, looming on Monday, there’s not a lot of wiggle room for the bill.
—Danielle J. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 8 Apr. 2026
If Pronman and Wheeler are right, there might be a tiny bit of wiggle room.
—Murat Ates, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
The primary landing site for Artemis II is approximately 50 miles southwest of San Diego, however NASA has about 475 nautical miles of wiggle room to move the landing site farther offshore along the entry ground track to find better weather if needed.
—CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
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Katie Campione, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2026
With a one-vote margin previously in the Senate and with Sine Die, the last day of the legislative session, looming on Monday, there’s not a lot of wiggle room for the bill.
—Danielle J. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 8 Apr. 2026
If Pronman and Wheeler are right, there might be a tiny bit of wiggle room.
—Murat Ates, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
The primary landing site for Artemis II is approximately 50 miles southwest of San Diego, however NASA has about 475 nautical miles of wiggle room to move the landing site farther offshore along the entry ground track to find better weather if needed.
—CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wiggle room
Noun
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From then on, the storytelling goes slack and perfunctory as sharks swarm and chomp on passengers and crew clinging for dear lives on rafts or slabs of plane wreckage.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2026
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But its teammates pick up the slack.—
Kate Kassin,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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It is fitted out with a teaching kitchen, a podcast-production space, a large classroom called the Democracy in Action Lab, and a recording studio.—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Jay Blackman Jay Blackman is an NBC News producer covering such areas as transportation, space, medical and consumer issues.—
Jay Blackman,
NBC news,
4 May 2026
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“Wiggle room.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiggle%20room. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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