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 If anything, create some wiggle room in your day and focus on what truly requires your attention. Valerie Mesa, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024 Trump needs to juice the AI boom to super-boost growth — and provide more wiggle room for other economic policies. Axios, 16 Dec. 2024 But the retailer does leave itself some wiggle room for increasing a buy when an item is suddenly popular. Byphil Wahba, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024 Thune will have more wiggle room in his first two years as leader, with a majority of three seats. Stephen Neukam, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024 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 18 Jan. 2025.

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