Thesaurus results for WIGGLEROOM

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 latter has five games left of wiggle room. —

Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2026 When the 2026 budget was adopted, Bonta and Clerk-Treasurer Liz Modesto warned about the tight budget not leaving much wiggle room. —

Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026 The more complicated answer is that Apple's shiny new budget MacBook Neo (starting at $599) also, arguably, gave the company some wiggle room to bump up the price a bit. —

Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 4 Mar. 2026 With two games left, Texas A&M basketball has virtually no wiggle room. —

Tony Catalina, Austin American Statesman, 3 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for wiggle room

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The new star has moved from horizon to center stage for Auriemma, freshman Blanca Quinonez, from Argentina by way of Italy, picked up the scoring slack with 14 points in the first half as the Huskies led by seven.

— Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2026
As journalism scholar Paul Alonso writes, looking at two cases from South America, sometimes satirical media takes up the slack.

— Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 27 Mar. 2026