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
• The heist remained a secret until it was declassified in 2019.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2024
• 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
• In December 2023, reports emerged that US dietary guidelines might change to declassify potatoes as a vegetable, mirroring the approach taken in Britain.
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024