How to Use declassify in a Sentence

declassify

verb
  • The government has not yet declassified that information.
  • Most of the exhibits took years or decades to declassify.
    CBS News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The venture was declassified in 1992, just months after the fall of the Soviet Union.
    Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 23 June 2023
  • In April more than 50 House members urged State to declassify the report.
    Richard Goldberg and, WSJ, 5 July 2018
  • According to the Post, the transcripts have not been declassified.
    Alana Abramson, PEOPLE.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • In your view, does there need to be more sort of clarity on what a president can declassify and when?
    CBS News, 15 Jan. 2023
  • And the president appears to have declassified the dog's name: Conan.
    NBC News, 31 Oct. 2019
  • And the president appears to have declassified the dog’s name: Conan.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The only way for the American people to judge is to declassify these documents and get them out.
    Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Thousands of documents related to the Chile coup have been declassified over the years.
    Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Even after the program was declassified in 1968, the Navajo Code Talkers' role was not widely shared.
    Shondiin Silversmith, azcentral, 11 July 2018
  • Tenet did the right thing by declassifying both judgments.
    David V. Gioe, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
  • The 1969 incident made front-page news even as the nation was embroiled in Vietnam, based on documents from the time that have since been declassified.
    Nancy A. Youssef, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2017
  • About two years ago, Russia declassified footage from the test, which shows a giant mushroom cloud formed in the sky post-detonation.
    Daniel Drainville, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2024
  • Of the thousands of documents that purportedly made up the case against Gul, only 24 pages had at first been declassified and turned over.
    Longreads, 1 Mar. 2018
  • And there's lots of things the president can do like that, to declassify information.
    Fox News, 3 June 2018
  • Then, this week, it was disclosed in court that the secret eavesdropping program had been declassified.
    Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • These details about his work in Moscow, which were recently declassified, came from the draft of a forthcoming book.
    Sam Walker, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2019
  • Lawmakers could also decide it’s time to declassify the full 6,700 pages of the Torture Report.
    Karen J. Greenberg, Vox, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Once the program was declassified, the next step was finding scientists to do the necessary studies.
    Sharon Weinberger, Smithsonian, 7 May 2018
  • The number, which has been declassified every year for nearly a decade, is once again classified and not for public knowledge.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2019
  • Haspel’s past and is making a mockery of the confirmation process by not declassifying more.
    Liz Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The hires come as Mr. Trump and some of his aides have been pressing to declassify documents that would describe sources of information inside the Kremlin.
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Haspel supervised one of those detention sites in Thailand, but details of her work there have not been declassified.
    Lisa Marasco, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2018
  • The simple problem is that the government classifies too much and doesn’t declassify enough.
    The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Kirby did not say how the United States obtained the intelligence, which had been declassified.
    Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • After the war, they were sworn to secrecy about the program until it was declassified by the federal government in 1968.
    David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Heinrich and other Democrats have sought to declassify CIA documents that could help clarify her work at the agency.
    NBC News, 8 May 2018
  • The recording is deeply primal, deeply personal, and never should have been declassified.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 11 July 2024
  • To encourage Congress to reauthorize Section 702, the administration declassified information showing its value.
    David V. Gioe, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024

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