How to Use gray area in a Sentence
gray area
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There's a lot up for gray area.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 6 Feb. 2026
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Yet for many brands, this is a gray area.
—Hernan Tagliani, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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But there's just a lot of gray area in this.
—Daniel Gilbert, CBS News, 8 June 2026
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Legally, this is not a gray area.
—Christine Villabona-Kuntz, New York Daily News, 19 Jan. 2026
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Not a gray area, but clearly against the rules.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
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That’s the gray area in which this debate lives.
—Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
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Yeah, like, that's a murky, middle gray area.
—Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
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All that to say, there’s no gray area with this guy, only black and white.
—Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 15 Nov. 2024
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Sean doesn’t really leave a lot of gray area.
—Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
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And in the policies that you guys give me, there won't be any gray area with me.
—Luke Barr, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
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Bud Black found himself in a gray area and left red-faced again.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2025
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This is where the gray area of the tennis rules can often come in.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 July 2026
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Insurance is kind of a gray area in of itself in this.
—Joel Feder, The Drive, 19 Mar. 2026
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At the center of that debate is a legal gray area.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Poker games in Texas seem to fall into a gray area of the law.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2025
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That actually is a bit of a gray area.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026
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Dan is so good being in the gray area, which is like being a person.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2026
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When did viral beauty become such a gray area?
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2025
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Is there a gray area between fantasy and truth?
—Usa Today, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
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This is her husband, and the texts are [in] that weird gray area…where, like, the texts are too cute.
—Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 10 Feb. 2025
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This is her husband, and the texts are [in] that weird gray area…where, like, the texts are too cute.
—Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 2 Oct. 2024
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Locke said that Parker, like himself, hates gray area.
—Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 18 Mar. 2026
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There’s just this big, very gray area that question is living within.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025
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Dating apps exist in a legal gray area.
—Annie Joy Williams, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
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In the middle are those who call themselves gray area drinkers, Knowles said.
—Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 9 Jan. 2026
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In other states, a legal gray area remains.
—Karlee Provenza, Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2026
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There are scrapers that aim to offer that service, but that's a gray area, to say the least.
—Kevin Purdy, ArsTechnica, 9 May 2025
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How people can be a lot of different things and there’s a lot more gray area than black and white.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2024
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Arcades like these often operate in a gray area of the law.
—Miami Herald, 13 Nov. 2025
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Schmitt, making his fifth career start in left field, gave chase but found himself in a gray area.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 25 May 2026
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