elbowroom
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This means a house on the Thames, with a boat at the bottom of the garden and plenty of elbowroom for his wife and two young daughters.
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There is ever less elbowroom for the individual; submissive cooperation with increasingly remote and mysterious forces has become the order of the day.
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While winning elbowroom at the men's bar, she has lost her seat in the subway.
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By war's end, father Jay was moving aside to give Harsen plenty of elbowroom, and Harsen's ideas were to expand.
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All the same, I’m free to admit that I haven’t quite the elbowroom I need.”
From Stepsons of Light by Eugene Manlove Rhodes