How to Use gray area in a Sentence

gray area

noun

• And then there's gray area: What must the Jets surrender for Rodgers?
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
• The company had found a legal gray area, and with it, lots of profit.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2023
• This addition to the statute has added enough gray area that a lawsuit has now come forward.
  — John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2023
• And for many years, foreign formats appeared to be in a legal gray area.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
• The antiporn movement folks see everything as black and white, so there’s little gray area.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• In terms of legal status, Delta 8 is currently in a legal gray area.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
• That was a legal gray area at the time, since songs prior to that year had not been covered by federal sound recording copyrights.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 28 July 2023
• Shaving the area under your prosthesis Like most things in life, the issue of shaving residual limbs lies in a gray area.
  — Chloé Valentine Toscano, Allure, 30 Nov. 2023
• But there is still a little gray area entering the preseason finale against the Las Vegas Raiders.
  — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2023
• The matter of whether or not the fair use doctrine extends to this kind of application currently sits in a legal gray area.
  — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 5 July 2023
• With private insurance, there appears to be a gray area about whether policies cover this service, and LeBlanc has found that few do.
  — Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• Yet Fight Night, despite being an amateur boxing match, fell in a legal gray area.
  — Zoë Bernard, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2023
• That gray area of the available treatments meant a lot of people in need were left without options, especially young patients like those of Dr. Craiglow.
  — Emily Nadal, Parents, 18 July 2023
• But any other circumstances remain in a legal gray area.
  — Time, 21 July 2023
• This changing of the guard initially put Blue Beetle in a bit of a gray area regarding the future of its characters and storylines.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2023
• In Maui County, tiny homes fall into a legal gray area, housing advocates said.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2024
• More specifically, why do their stripes have crisp lines separating black from white — no gray area?
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
• But the reimbursement program is a new twist, and potentially a legal gray area.
  — Katherine Koretski, NBC News, 10 July 2023
• There's also some gray area cheating going on between the love triangle, and Jeremiah and Belly's wedding is called off.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 4 Aug. 2023
• Mayor’s courts operate in a gray area of Louisiana law.
  — Samantha Sunne, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
• But the law is unclear on how the secretary can wield that authority, creating a legal gray area that has been the subject of debate since Biden took office.
  — Bycollin Binkley, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023
• The team’s identity crisis is borne of Green’s many suspensions, Andrew Wiggins’ decline and a gray area in which younger players are called on to step up more than expected.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
• The sotol made and sold in the countryside existed in a legal gray area, largely unpermitted and untaxed.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
• This training sits in a legal gray area, with arguments for and against the idea that it can be conducted without permission from the rightsholders.
  — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 29 June 2023
• But in all three places, the community exists in a legal gray area — neither criminalized nor protected by the law.
  — Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• The guidelines acknowledge that there will still be cross-promotional work with influencer partners that falls into a gray area.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 18 July 2023
• Gerhardt said impeachment trials fall in a gray area outside of criminal and civil trials.
  — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 28 July 2023
• But contact during joint practices is always a gray area and can lead to the pushing and shoving that precedes a potentially more serious encounter.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
• As our Constitution and Supreme Court currently stand, both protections and restrictions sit in a gray area on the federal level.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
• Whether Crone risks violating this policy with material like the arson clip — which falls into something of a gray area — is an open question.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024