Meaning of gray area in English
(Definition of gray area from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of gray area
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In the gray area between research and quality improvement, consent to use already existing personal health information is often an important issue.
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The light gray area gives the additional risk of doing harm by inference for a new study effect, exchangeable with studies performed.
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There is a "gray area" that includes procedures for which adequate evidence from clinical trials is not available.
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The shaded gray area indicates the region within which spatial aliasing occurs- when gratings can be detected but not reliably identified.
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For each evaluative criterion, there is a gray area between "acceptable" and "unacceptable" classifications that needs to be clarified.
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The dark gray area gives the probability that an early invasive treatment strategy is harmful compared with an early conservative treatment strategy based on the original studies.
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The thoracolumbar fascia is the gray area at bottom center.
Lying somewhere in a gray area are strips that still have an association with their original author but receive significant assistance from others.
A key hidden in the gray area will suddenly appear.
Some luminophores, however, can not be classified as being exclusively fluorophores or phosphors and exist in the gray area in between.
Stylistically, rap occupies a gray area between speech, prose, poetry, and singing.
As with game shows, a gray area exists between such reality television shows and more conventional formats.
This has allowed some parents a gray area as to which school district they are to send their children.
One can use a balance of good and evil, trying to stay in the gray area.
Drug paraphernalia is still sold today, but in a legal gray area.
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