grey area
(in Britain) a region in which unemployment is relatively high
an area or part of something existing between two extremes and having mixed characteristics of both
an area, situation, etc, lacking clearly defined characteristics
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How to use grey area in a sentence
I love The Affair for bravely reflecting back to us that murky grey area of not knowing.
Like many things in Buenos Aires, absinthe seems to fall into a sort of legal grey area.
From there, you can reintroduce some of the “grey area” foods like dairy and grains to see how you tolerate them.
But recent cases have shown us there is a complicated grey area where the brain is dead but the heart is very much alive.
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