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grey area

noun

  1. (in Britain) a region in which unemployment is relatively high
  2. an area or part of something existing between two extremes and having mixed characteristics of both
  3. an area, situation, etc, lacking clearly defined characteristics
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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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