wiggle

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But their limits were phrased with far less clarity and with far more wiggle room.

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the act of wiggling

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noun

the act of wiggling

verb

move to and fro; "Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wiggle.

noun

the act of wiggling

verb

move to and fro; "Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!"

Example sentences

But their limits were phrased with far less clarity and with far more wiggle room.

Have no margin to spare or wiggle room in their operating costs.

You'd think that random variables could wiggle too much, but, no, they can't!

They're literally charging you money to wiggle your own electrons!

No one likes to discover, 3 months later, that you could do a 3 finger pinch with a middle finger wiggle gesture to do what you wanted.

"\n\nemphasis mineOf course the word "really" in the middle of the sentence gives semantic wiggle room, but it's still a pretty big statement.

I hope some enterprising journalist works out some way to wiggle in there and try to figure out exactly what all these administrators are doing, because to me, it's not a merely a rhetorical question.

A personal anecdote to demonstrate Joe's awesomeness: After hearing him give the keynote speech for Princeton's entrepreneurship conference, I was able to wiggle through the crowd of people surrounding him and blurt "Hey Joe!

I want companies to categorically state with no wiggle room the only circumstances under which they provide data to government/law enforcement before I even begin to think about trusting them again.

They have definitely left a lot of wiggle room and you'd be crazy to build stuff based on their patents without a licensing agreement, but I think this signals that they are very open to licensing their technology, and are not trying to "build a moat".