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grey area

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. grey area, gray areanoun

    an intermediate area; a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other

Wiktionary

  1. grey areanoun

    An area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories where the border between the two is fuzzy.

  2. grey areanoun

    A topic that is not clearly one thing or the other.

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  1. grey area

    A grey area refers to a situation, topic or concept that is unclear or undefined, making it difficult to definitively categorize or determine the appropriate reaction or course of action. It can denote the territory between two clear-cut or opposing positions that lacks clear rules or parameters. It's often referred to in context of legality, morality, ethics, rules or systems.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of grey area in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of grey area in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of grey area in a Sentence

  1. Christopher Griffin:

    It was arranged along a spectrum, where the very smallest individuals were immature, and the very largest were mature, but there’s this big grey area in the middle, where there’s lots and lots of variation based on the different ways these things grow.

  2. Sebastien Soriano:

    Technically all the traffic is treated in the same way, but at the tariff level, some services are untariffed and others are, this question is open. This is at the heart of the grey area of what is allowed or not.

  3. Ran Craycraft:

    When an employee is nabbed for doing something a boss couldn't see with her own eyes, that's when we start to get into a grey area, if you're not working as hard as you can and your productivity is measurable with AI, your job may soon be at risk. Employees will not welcome an increase in surveillance with open arms. Workers will likely organize and begin to fight back against AI similarly to how unions have historically fought automation.

  4. Peter Rutherford:

    We know the pros and the cons of a blanket ban, we know the risks of' collective justice', but we also know the risk of not punishing a culture of doping that comes from the very top, i would say that the latter is a much greater threat to sport. We've certainly not been given a clear message of transparency and progress. But no, what we have now is a messy, grey area that doesn't help anyone.

  5. Bassel Choughari:

    It creates a bit of a grey area between Swiss-made and probably made-in-China products, so that could be a bit difficult to manage over time.


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