How to Use security clearance in a Sentence

security clearance

noun

• So how did the 21-year-old get top secret security clearance?
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2023
• The indictment says Wiles did not have a security clearance.
  — Isaac Arnsdorf and Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
• The indictment also points out that neither the aides nor the writer or publisher had a security clearance.
  — Robert Legare, Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 28 July 2023
• In 1954, he was brought before the Atomic Energy Commission and lost his security clearance at the hearing.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 July 2023
• What happened to Robert Oppenheimer after he was stripped of his security clearance?
  — Christopher Nolan, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
• Most of which require a secret or top-secret security clearance.
  — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2023
• But on the day of my visit, my security clearance checked out and my clothes didn’t break any of the rules, so Chamblas and I were escorted through a series of double gates and across the sun-baked yard into the education building.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• Strauss’ anger over slights, real and imagined, sets in motion a plot to discredit Oppenheimer and deny him his security clearance.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
• Ernst asked Chollet, noting Tabatabai was hired and received her security clearance at the State Department during his tenure as its counselor.
  — Brandon Gillespie, Fox News, 29 Sep. 2023
• But Teixeira already had an offline record that arguably should have raised concerns for the officials who approved his security clearance.
  — Shane Harris, Samuel Oakford and Chris Dehghanpoor, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023
• Questions have been raised about how the junior airman who provided IT support for the 102nd Intelligence Wing had such a high-level security clearance.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2023
• In July, 2021, Trump brought some of the documents to his ______ (sport requiring minimal athleticism) club in ______ (punch-line state) and shared them with multiple people, none of whom had security clearance to view them.
  — Dan Stahl, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
• While the interview is not yet public, a person familiar with the matter said Musk was miffed when Lemon questioned him on his use of the drug ketamine, his government security clearance, and the issue of antisemitism.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
• In 1954, his security clearance was revoked as a result of his friendships with members of the American Communist Party more than a decade earlier.
  — The New Yorker, 9 July 2023
• Mark Zaid, a whistleblower attorney with a security clearance who represents many of the victims, said there's little doubt in his mind that Russia is involved and that the latest reporting should move the needle.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2024
• Oppenheimer became such an ardent advocate of radical measures to control the bomb that he was stripped of his security clearance.
  — Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2023
• His military security clearance is revoked, and his name is tarnished.
  — USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
• This means the Space Force needs to entrust more real-time operational decisions to junior officers who may not hold a top-level security clearance.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
• When Oppenheimer wallows after losing his security clearance, Kitty throws an empty bottle of alcohol at the wall and tells him to get real.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 July 2023
• As of February, Teixeira was in a position that required top-secret security clearance.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
• The paragraph details Trump’s alleged showing of a classified document to someone without a security clearance in 2021.
  — Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 June 2024
• Aside from this clandestine rendezvous, Pugh’s Tatlock disappears for much of Oppenheimer — save a scene during Oppenheimer’s 1954 security clearance hearings that has to be seen to be believed.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023
• Sharing classified information with someone who doesn't have a security clearance is a felony.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
• Already too, the film whispered the rumors of Hoover’s homosexuality that would have denied an FBI security clearance to anyone else in government.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
• He had just been promoted to sergeant, held Top Secret security clearance, and had logged seven years of military service, including an overseas deployment.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• From his early childhood to his national security clearance being revoked due to his alleged communist ties, the book is split into five parts and includes different stages of Oppenheimer’s life.
  — Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
• Less than a decade after being trusted to lead the most highly classified R&D program in American history, his security clearance was revoked.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
• Prosecutors allege Wei, who held a security clearance, stole national defense information and sold it to a Chinese spy.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2024
• That count is related to Trump allegedly showing a top secret military document about Iran to other people who, like him, lacked the security clearance required to see such material.
  — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• But those who do may find that parts of their criminal records remain visible to potential employers, if the person conducting the background check has a law enforcement-level security clearance, Smeeton said.
  — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024