"running room" meaning in All languages combined

See running room on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} running room (uncountable)
  1. Freedom; flexibility; options. Tags: uncountable Related terms: wiggle room
    Sense id: en-running_room-en-noun-PfPehweV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "[FOX news] would say […] [t]here has to be robust room for there to be rhetoric and hyperbole and overstatement and, yes, at times, misstatement, when we're talking about important issues of national and politcal concern, because that's what the First Amendment envisions. You have to have running room.",
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