How to Use unseal in a Sentence

unseal

verb
  • The court unsealed the documents in the Douglas trial today.
  • Winning the order to unseal them was the first step for his team.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The charge or charges against Trump are sealed, but they will be unsealed in the future.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • He was charged in March, and the indictment was unsealed in May.
    Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 6 July 2023
  • The government has filed those under seal and is asking the court to unseal them.
    Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Thomas said his office would release the report when the case is unsealed.
    Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2023
  • Biden has since paid off his tax debts, a fact that his lawyers have cited in the days since the indictment was unsealed.
    Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • To empty it, simply remove the tank, lift the plug to unseal the top, and pour out the water into a sink or drain.
    Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The Justice Department has since asked the court to unseal a report prepared by the filter team.
    CBS News, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The New York Times and other news outlets asked a court to unseal the information.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 23 June 2023
  • Giuffre's lawyers have unsealed documents in batches of dozens at a time.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • There's no plan to unseal them, the court said last week, so it's not yet known where the warrants were executed and what was recovered.
    Fox News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • But his lawyers did not file a motion in court making their case to either unseal the affidavit or keep it sealed.
    Perry Stein, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Bragg could ask a judge to unseal it, Trump could choose to disclose the details, or it could be revealed when Trump first appears in court for arraignment.
    Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The indictment unsealed charged Trump with conspiring to defraud the United States.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The mystery could be resolved this week, when a federal court judge is expected to rule on a motion by the Tour to unseal those contracts.
    Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The indictment was unsealed Thursday, two days after it was issued by a grand jury.
    Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The name of the lead defendant in the case has not yet been unsealed, though Guatemalan authorities arrested another man on the same U.S. charges as Barreiro on the same day.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The indictment against him was unsealed Thursday morning.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The initial release came as the court granted a request by a news media advocacy group to unseal more of the record since aspects of the case have become public.
    Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But as Oles explained it, all the board members had to do was assert their legal authority to unseal the ballots.
    Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Since the indictment was unsealed on Friday, two dozen fellow Senate Democrats have called for Menendez to resign.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Prosecutors in New Jersey unsealed charges against one of them, Vitaly Kovalev, who is believed to be a senior member of the group.
    Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The Justice Department filed a motion to unseal the search warrant, which was released last Friday.
    John Wagner, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
  • After the latest indictment was unsealed this week, Smith again vowed to seek a speedy trial, putting an emphasis on pushing the case forward.
    Mark Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Still, the pair’s private business holdings and their agreements are largely blocked from public view, even after a judge unsealed many filings.
    Jonathan Mattise, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The complaints were unsealed and made public Wednesday after the suspects were arrested.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Prosecutors say the corruption scheme laid out in the 39-page indictment unsealed Friday began the next month.
    Tracey Tully, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The request to unseal the warrant could keep key parts of it off-limits to the public, said attorney Martin Reeder, who is representing the Post.
    Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The details of the arrest warrant are currently sealed under court order and are expected to be unsealed at a later time, police said in the statement.
    Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2024

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