How to Use unseal in a Sentence
unseal
verb- The court unsealed the documents in the Douglas trial today.
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The Enquirer went to court and got a judge to unseal the records.
— Julia Fair, Cincinnati.com, 28 Oct. 2019 -
Winning the order to unseal them was the first step for his team.
— Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2023 -
George Gascón last week joined a motion to unseal the records.
— James Queallystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022 -
The charge or charges against Trump are sealed, but they will be unsealed in the future.
— Kerry Breen, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023 -
Court records show the charges were filed in March but unsealed Wednesday.
— Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 24 Apr. 2024 -
He was charged in March, and the indictment was unsealed in May.
— Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 6 July 2023 -
The county moved to strike the report two days after the Free Press sought to unseal it.
— Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2020 -
It should have been unsealed and made public three years ago!
— Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2024 -
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 -
That portion of the law also states that a court order could unseal the ballots.
— Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2021 -
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 -
More about the case:Judge rules to unseal court records in 2017 police-custody death of Muhammad Muhaymin Jr.
— Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 17 Nov. 2021 -
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 -
They were unsealed on September 4th, on the eve of the sixty-day deadline.
— David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024 -
Shea ordered the state judiciary to unseal the case records of teens transferred to adult court and to open the courtrooms.
— Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 16 Dec. 2020 -
That’s absurd, of course — moving to unseal the search warrant is a big deal indeed.
— Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2022 -
In fighting to unseal the suits, The Sun argued such actions violate the mission of a free and open press.
— John Holland, baltimoresun.com, 16 July 2021 -
Original brick walls were left exposed and unsealed, along with I-beams and rafters.
— Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful, 17 Apr. 2020 -
Two authors, Sam Wasson and William Rempel, had asked the court to unseal the 2010 transcript, according to the court.
— Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 14 July 2022 -
The Justice Department has since asked the court to unseal a report prepared by the filter team.
— CBS News, 16 Sep. 2022 -
Court records in the case, which was first reported by the , were filed under seal Tuesday and unsealed Wednesday.
— Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2020 -
Garland said the government had filed a motion to unseal the search warrant.
— Adam Carlson, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2022 -
The Los Angeles Times moved to intervene in the case in December in an effort to unseal the lists.
— Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022 -
The New York Times and other news outlets asked a court to unseal the information.
— Harold Maass, The Week, 23 June 2023 -
Of course, few people unseal the collector’s item to imbibe and take it home to add to their collection.
— Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024 -
O’Neil has not issued an opinion on the request to unseal the documents.
— Lauren Castle, azcentral, 22 Nov. 2019 -
The next day, wire fraud and money laundering charges against both Lam and Serrano were unsealed.
— Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 24 Oct. 2024 -
Though Constand settled in the civil suit with Cosby and the case records, including Cosby’s depositions, were sealed, the records were unsealed in 2015 by a federal judge who presided over the civil suit.
— Ashley R. Williams, CNN, 24 Nov. 2024
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