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wide berth

noun as in sea room

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I would have given wide berth to the man we spotted across the street, who was swaying slightly and holding onto a corner fence post as if for support.

From Salon

It focuses particularly on the admissibility of the Pence evidence under the Supreme Court’s expansive immunity opinion, which gives the president a wide berth to engage in otherwise illegal conduct.

"While the First Amendment generally gives politicians wide berth to lie, the court has been much more restrictive of First Amendment freedoms when IP rights are at stake," Lemley said.

From Salon

The reality was that he would never displace Erling Haaland as a number nine, so he would have to either compete with the likes of Phil Foden, Jack Grealish, Jeremy Doku, Bernardo Silva and others for a wide berth, or accept a role as back-up.

From BBC

Razi steered around it first, giving it a wide berth until they found a suitable landing place.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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