gray area

Example Sentences

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The report said the government is concerned about “gray areas” as well as the prospect of having to negotiate individual use cases.

From MarketWatch

There are potential gray areas — such as whether a large-scale school walkout — which organizers intend to be dramatic — would fall outside this protection because students don’t formally check out, for example.

From Los Angeles Times

“These social changes exist in a legal gray area,” said Andrew Leber, an assistant professor at Tulane University and a nonresident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East program.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the satellite image, the stadium appears as a gray area just below the Alpine region in the lower left portion of the frame.

From Science Daily

It also showed how love can reside in a gray area — how inherently flawed and beautiful the act of loving is.

From Los Angeles Times