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gray area

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. grey area, gray areanoun

    an intermediate area; a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other

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  1. gray areanoun

    A part that is not clear or certain; something that is open to interpretation.

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  1. gray area

    A gray area refers to a situation, subject, or concept that is unclear, undefined, uncertain, or lacks explicit rules, making it difficult to determine the right course of action or make a distinction between right and wrong. It's a situation typically open to interpretation or individual judgement.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of gray area in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of gray area in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of gray area in a Sentence

  1. Liz Cheney:

    We are thankfully not at a moment of civil war, but we are certainly at a time of testing, we are absolutely in a moment where we have to make a decision about whether we're going to put our love of this country above partisanship. And to me, there's just, there's no gray area in that question.

  2. Geneva Solomon:

    If the single parent is walking home and can’t prove that they're ‘important’ by having money or high-value items taken from them, it may be really hard, which goes back to the ‘just cause’ requirement of the insurance of the CCW. Having ‘just cause’ is too big of a gray area. That means it's up for interpretation of the person interviewing you and can lead to underlying bias.

  3. Madeleine Swortwood:

    It’s sort of a gray area right now because it is a food product, so you would think that it would fall under the FDA, but it also contains a Schedule II drug, so you think it might fall under the jurisdiction of the DEA, they are marketing this for pain relief as a food product but they contain potentially lethal levels of a Schedule II drug.

  4. Lobsang Sangay:

    Being a leader is a lonely place, you got to be responsible for the decision you made that effect a lot of people. And when you make a decision it's never clear that your decision is right or wrong, it's always in a gray-area.

  5. Mehdi Hosseini:

    There appears to be some gray area where companies may be able to ship to Huawei through third party distributors, but it's not clear, i do expect some sort of a handshake for window dressing, but not a clear resolution with details coming out.


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