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gray area

NOUN
happy medium
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“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

I love both because they thrive in the gray area of appetite: nothing too hot, nothing too cold, nothing that makes me recoil from a bite.

From Salon

If the new rules are a gray area, it’s more clear cut elsewhere.

From MarketWatch