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 That doesn’t give the company much wiggle room to reach or beat 1.8 million sales — its 2023 record — by the end of the year. William Gavin, Quartz, 24 Oct. 2024 The campaign proposal includes some wiggle room, perhaps in an attempt to sidestep questions about the plan’s constitutionality. Zach Halaschak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Oct. 2024 In his art, however, Duccio seems most himself when he’s subdued, finding odd pockets of wiggle room in Christian iconography. Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2024 So the Trump campaign has actually been courting Muslim and Arab American voters and trying to take advantage of that sort of wiggle room by promising peace in the Middle East. Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 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 22 Nov. 2024.

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