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gray area
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.Example Sentences
Then they create a gray area, and make the Republicans sue to get their way.
“What we end up with is basically a lot of gray area and question marks that are left to the public to try to figure out themselves.â€
"If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned," he had said, saying there were only some cases where there were "gray areas."
Earlier this month, now-Vice President JD Vance told Fox News that if someone committed violence on Jan. 6, “obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned, and there’s a little bit of a gray area there.â€
Crypto falls into sort of a gray area in terms of how the SEC can regulate it, as it's not a traditional security like stocks.
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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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