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gray area

NOUN
happy medium
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Regular bikes are already banned from anything designated as a “trail,” according to a city ordinance, but a spokesperson for Lee said e-bikes were a gray area that his proposal aims to address.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

Cases like Monique’s highlight that gray area between passengers behaving badly, your own feelings of safety as a passenger, and official U.S.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

It is a gray area that was being tested on Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

That was a huge burden on our editors, especially since it was still a gray area.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

There was one small gray area of the sky still aglow in the west; the rest was blackness, and flashes of lightning.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara




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