unseal

verb

un·​seal ˌən-ˈsēl How to pronounce unseal (audio)
unsealed; unsealing; unseals

transitive verb

: to break or remove the seal of : open

Examples of unseal in a Sentence

The court unsealed the documents in the Douglas trial today.
Recent Examples on the Web Silver customers grumbled about the shipping of the coins, saying the cases were unsealed, letting the coins fall out and, in some cases, get scratched. Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024 Watchdog Union-Tribune, CBS 8 seek to intervene in Serna case in effort to unseal jail-death records, exhibits April 3, 2024 The Union-Tribune and CBS 8 sought to intervene in the case earlier this week on the grounds that the material should be included in the public record. Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024 In 2019, the documents from the 2015 lawsuit were unsealed, and Giuffre's accusations against Andrew came to light. Armani Syed, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024 Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are pushing back against a recent restriction on filings in his New York hush money case and asked the court to unseal some of the filings in the case, according to two motions released on Tuesday. Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2024 The indictment, unsealed Wednesday, alleges that the theft began two years ago, when Ding, a Chinese national, began uploading hundreds of company files about its data centers into a personal Google Cloud account. Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2024 This past winter, the FBI unsealed an indictment accusing an Indian government employee of orchestrating a murder-for-hire assassination attempt of a Sikh separatist activist in New York City. Sandhya Dirks, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024 The complaints were unsealed and made public Wednesday after the suspects were arrested. Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024 Prosecutors unsealed a 76-count indictment against the brothers and their co-conspirators in 2019 on the same day the FBI raided several San Diego-area homes and businesses connected to the Liao family, who are naturalized U.S. citizens from China. Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

12th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of unseal was in the 12th century

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“Unseal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unseal. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

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unseal

verb
un·​seal ˌən-ˈsē(ə)l How to pronounce unseal (audio)
ˈən-
: to break or remove the seal of
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