How to Use gray area in a Sentence
gray area
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The agency’s difficulty in keeping up with Mr. Trump’s maneuvers, experts said, showed that this gray area of tax law was too easy to exploit.
—Paul Kiel Eric Jason Martin Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 11 May 2024
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And then there's gray area: What must the Jets surrender for Rodgers?
—Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
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How people can be a lot of different things and there’s a lot more gray area than black and white.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2024
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The company had found a legal gray area, and with it, lots of profit.
—Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2023
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This addition to the statute has added enough gray area that a lawsuit has now come forward.
—John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2023
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And for many years, foreign formats appeared to be in a legal gray area.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
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The antiporn movement folks see everything as black and white, so there’s little gray area.
—Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
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In terms of legal status, Delta 8 is currently in a legal gray area.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
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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
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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
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But there is still a little gray area entering the preseason finale against the Las Vegas Raiders.
—Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2023
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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
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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
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But those narratives are rarely true, and most situations fall into a gray area.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
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Yet Fight Night, despite being an amateur boxing match, fell in a legal gray area.
—Zoë Bernard, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2023
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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
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But any other circumstances remain in a legal gray area.
—Time, 21 July 2023
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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
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In Maui County, tiny homes fall into a legal gray area, housing advocates said.
—Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2024
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More specifically, why do their stripes have crisp lines separating black from white — no gray area?
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
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The agency’s difficulty in keeping up with Trump’s maneuvers, experts said, showed that this gray area of tax law was too easy to exploit.
—Paul Kiel, Fortune, 11 May 2024
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But the reimbursement program is a new twist, and potentially a legal gray area.
—Katherine Koretski, NBC News, 10 July 2023
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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
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Mayor’s courts operate in a gray area of Louisiana law.
—Samantha Sunne, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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