How to Use room for maneuver in a Sentence

room for maneuver

noun phrase
  • There was no room for maneuver.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Mamdani has less room for maneuver.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
  • But this deal could greatly increase his room for maneuver, analysts said.
    David M. Halbfinger Giacomo D’orlando Sela Shiloni Shuimo Trust Dohyee, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Yet by putting forward this proposal, Moscow has given itself vast room for maneuver and endless discussions.
    Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Part of the challenge for vessels and any potential ship-escorting operations is that the room for maneuver is highly constricted.
    Annette Choi, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Trump’s rhetoric has raised expectations while simultaneously narrowing his own room for maneuver.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Last year’s Fortune 500 Europe list featured 36 new companies, showing there is still room for maneuver—and growth—even at the highest levels of business.
    Francesca Cassidy, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026
  • This marks growing dependence on the IMF and the United States, while the gradualist approach has left the economy with very little room for maneuver and risks further instability.
    Armando Regil Velasco, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • States formally allied with the United States, or dependent on it for security guarantees, from Saudi Arabia to Japan, have far less room for maneuver than their diplomatic gestures imply.
    Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Time, 15 Jan. 2026

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