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 Once the season started, Finch went the other way, epoxying an eight-man, veteran-laden rotation into each game with almost no wiggle room. Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025 This $20 million increase will also make free agency that much crazier, considering teams now have the wiggle room to potentially outbid one another. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025 There’s little financial wiggle room, and the club’s recruitment structure is playing catch-up with teams at the top of the Premier League and in its increasingly competitive middle class. Carl Anka, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025 Trump did give himself some wiggle room by challenging Arab states to come up with their own plan for postwar Gaza. Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wiggle room

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“Wiggle room.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiggle%20room. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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