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headroom

[hed-room, -room] / ˈhɛdˌrum, -ˌrʊm /




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Working with his usual cinematographer Łukasz Żal, Pawlikowski prefers a static camera, leaving plenty of headroom above the characters so that they feel entombed by their surroundings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The key metric for judging whether the government is likely to stick to its targets is the so-called headroom it has to meet that goal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

As a result, the IFS—a nonpartisan research body that focuses on the budget—estimates that the government’s headroom will likely be little changed at around 20 billion pounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

So all five stocks are priced lower than the S&P 500, with higher projected sales growth and FCF headroom.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Our house sat on concrete stilts that allowed enough headroom underneath for us to stake out play areas with clearly defined boundaries.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago


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