wiggle room

noun

Definition of wiggle roomnext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wiggle room
  1. slack
  2. space
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • In the kids space, Studiocanal is also adapting Dermot O’Leary’s Toto the Ninja Cat and Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking with Heyday.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Drawing from this, Songmont distills this ancient presence into the exhibition with a contemporary, walk-in space defined by clean, minimalist lines.
    — Footwear News, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of space

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“Wiggle room.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiggle%20room. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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