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 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
• Thousands of documents related to the Chile coup have been declassified over the years.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• Then, this week, it was disclosed in court that the secret eavesdropping program had been declassified.
  — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• And that is whether or not a president can declassify or classify certain items.
  — NBC News, 14 Aug. 2022
• To this day, many don’t accept that account and have urged the government to declassify information.
  — ABC News, 2 July 2022
• The book caused a stir in conspiracy theory circles after the CIA declassified it in 2013.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 24 May 2023
• With cannabis declassified, Germany will look to import partners to meet the growing demand for medical cannabis.
  — Niklas Kouparanis, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023
• Originally, insiders believed the service would declassify the weapon in late August, but the report states that the Air Force did not want to announce the weapon while dealing with the current crisis in Afghanistan.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2021
• After the project was declassified, efforts began to honor it with a monument.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
• It was declassified earlier this month and publicly released this week.
  — Olivia Gazis, CBS News, 16 June 2023
• Following a clash over access with Democratic lawmakers, the complaint was declassified on Sept. 25, the same day the transcript of the Trump-Zelensky call was released, and it was made available to the public the next day.
  — Daniel Chaitin, Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2020
• Alyssa Farah Griffin began speaking on the issue, a liquid on the opposite side of the stage appeared to declassify itself from its container.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 25 Jan. 2023
• What makes information 'classified'?:Who has the power to declassify it?
  — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2022
• President Donald Trump refused to declassify the report at the time, although its contents were widely leaked.
  — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• Many openly question whether the glacial pace to declassify has less to do with protecting secrets and more to do with protecting bureaucracies.
  — Charles Beames, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• The military did not declassify the top-secret program until 1968, long after the Navajos helped the American war effort.
  — Rachel Trent, CNN, 30 Mar. 2021
• The Justice Department has said there is no indication that Trump took any steps to declassify the documents seized from his Florida home.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, ajc, 22 Sep. 2022
• General Ryder said the Defense Department was going through the steps required to declassify the images.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• In the last go around, when it was most recently reauthorized, the federal government had occasion to declassify some examples of how this has been used.
  — CBS News, 25 Jan. 2023
• While the government could choose to declassify such information so that it could be freely discussed in open court, security officials may see that as too risky.
  — Charlie Savage, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• The order was issued Jan. 7, but wasn’t declassified until Thursday.
  — Byron Tau, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
• His mistake was living so long that reams of his old memos and diplomatic cables were declassified, including those that revealed his most vicious acts.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024