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gray area



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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.
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Example Sentences

In all likelihood, the pronouncement of death will likely include even more gray area in the future.

I think that dynamic, that gray area really makes that interesting.

God, science and family led you to believe in the gray area.

Boss is an expert in this gray area, where an unlucky few must spend their lives.

The FAA makes clear that there “is no gray area” for journalism.

This is in a gray area between black and white, and it is somewhat nebulous to pin it down to a precise percentage dimension.

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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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