gray area
noun
: an area or situation in which it is difficult to judge what is right and what is wrong
There are no gray areas in the rules.
a legal gray area
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That the actual sentence falls in the middle creates a gray area − further widened by the jury's mixed verdict.
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Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
Wolf dogs occupy a gray area in veterinary care.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Everyone’s kind of fallen into a gray area.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
This didn’t stop people from sharing files, but replacement tools like eDonkey 2000, Limewire, Kazaa, and Bearshare lived in a legal gray area.
—ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
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Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
Wolf dogs occupy a gray area in veterinary care.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Everyone’s kind of fallen into a gray area.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
This didn’t stop people from sharing files, but replacement tools like eDonkey 2000, Limewire, Kazaa, and Bearshare lived in a legal gray area.
—ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gray area
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“Gray area.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gray%20area. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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