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“And in this environment, where affordability is stretched so thin to begin with … there’s not a lot of wiggle room,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Final regulations tie schools’ loan access to graduates’ earning power, with some wiggle room.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Even the plans Burnham has hinted at so far could easily exceed the available wiggle room.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

But on the weeks when I have a little more energy — a little more calendar wiggle room, a little more curiosity — I try to widen my grocery orbit.

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

Together, we’d come up with Relocation Rule Number 11: Always leave yourself some wiggle room.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

Occasionally the wiggles get bigger and that can result in big curves in the flow - like a meandering river.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

“If you look at a video of a real baby primate, they have the exact same wiggles and imperfections,” says the filmmaker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025

Known as topological waves, these wiggles often occur on the border of two different regions, like plasma and the vacuum in tokamaks at its outer edge.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

Rather than set in stone, this race wiggles like Jello.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2024

The dog wiggles and strains, running her short legs in the air and growling.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins

To be sure, American consumers have wiggled out of tight spots before, powering the U.S. economy through decades-high inflation spikes, a pandemic, and armed conflicts.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

In protest, Cocker jumped on stage, wiggled his bottom at the cameras, made a strange wafting gesture with his hands and made a hasty exit, pursued by Jackson's security team.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

Though Yamamoto wiggled out of the jam, it took him 23 pitches to escape the first inning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

Rojas wore Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s blue glove, wiggled the ball in it and hesitated during his windup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025

He found a wide place between two rails, low to the ground, and wiggled his way through.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Maybe wiggling about a bit will throw off the kicker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Genius like his is the weeds wiggling through the cracks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026

You can bet that most Americans, meanwhile, will be wiggling their hips to “Dákiti.”

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025

When Noland awoke from the surgery which installed the device, he said he was initially able to control a cursor on a screen by thinking about wiggling his fingers.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2025

Jason ruffled through his satchel and retrieved a small cookie box; the wiggling animal crackers were fighting to get out.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton