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gray area
Idioms and Phrases
Indeterminate territory, undefined position, neither here nor there. For example, There's a large gray area between what is legal and what is not . This term, which uses gray in the sense of “neither black nor white” (or halfway between the two), dates only from the mid-1900s.Example Sentences
What the show does incredibly well is dancing in the gray area.
For Redmayne, this gray area between right and wrong “spoke to the moment.”
He has referred to himself as a “pro-life” candidate and recently called protecting access to reproductive rights a “gray area.”
You're playing the head of this family that is in jeopardy, but very quickly it becomes apparent that this is a complicated guy who has existed in a morally gray area.
California regulators indicated it’s a gray area and there does not appear to be an effort to clarify the rules or develop new ones.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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