elbowroom
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While winning elbowroom at the men's bar, she has lost her seat in the subway.
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He felt cramped in his constitutional compartment of powers, looked for elbowroom.
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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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Notable improvements over the 42 include a roomier wheelhouse with an updated electronics panel, more elbowroom in the master stateroom forward, more space on the flybridge and a longer boat deck.
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You're slick, and they ain't elbowroom enough in the West for slick gents.
From The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand