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wiggle room

noun

Definition of 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 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

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Tech exports from Mexico and Thailand, for example, are rising fast enough to offset slack domestic demand in both economies.

— RUCHIR SHARMA, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026
Sophomore Gabriel Weber stepped in and picked up the slack for Chisholm Trail with an 18 of 24, 264-yard passing performance.

— Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of slack

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Over the past few years, that space has become much more crowded, with brands from On Running to APL to Deckers Brands’ HOKA to New Balance managing to meet consumers’ changing tastes.

— Phil Wahba, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
But at this distance the jet’s energy wouldn’t have dissipated much during its voyage through space.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

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