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What is a grey area?

What is a grey area? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) An area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories, where the border between the two is fuzzy.
  2. (idiomatic) A topic that is not clearly one thing or the other, that is open to interpretation.
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The event highlights the murky grey area that exists for Hong Kong residents who get caught up in legal troubles on the mainland.
That's a grey area, but the very uncertainty injects a nice frisson into the comedy.
The loosening of that policy for terrorism does create a grey area, but it's a sensible political tactic.
You are for a yes vote or you are for a no, and there cannot be a grey area nor an in-between.
Wyatt also wants to introduce a specific offence for launching denial of service attacks, removing a potential grey area in existing laws.
A potential grey area is the extent to which a State can protect an individual against criminal behaviour.

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