gray area

noun

: an area or situation in which it is difficult to judge what is right and what is wrong

There are no gray areas in the rules.

a legal gray area

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Uber, despite operating in a gray area in Hong Kong, has also taken a chunk of customers away. —

David Pierson, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025 Hoyne, whose company works on around 300 abatement projects a year, said the rules around residential demolitions can be a confusing, gray area for contractors. —

Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 4 Jan. 2025 Rather, a vase, a table, or a chair can happily hover in the gray area between art and design, a space that young galleries are swiftly moving into. —

Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 22 Jan. 2025 Products that closely resemble an iconic designer item without blatantly ripping off their trademark, often called dupes, exist in a legal gray area and can cross the line from being simply an homage to a popular style to infringing on a copyright. —

Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 3 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for gray area