How to Use classified in a Sentence

classified

1 of 2 adjective
  • The part of the report that includes classified information was removed before the report was made public.
  • Here’s what to know about the classified documents case.
    Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Trump has been crying foul on the campaign trail for much of the last year, noting that Biden had also stored classified materials in his garage.
    Zeke Miller The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
  • But the spy rejected the honor, which only vaguely referenced his wartime service due to the classified nature of the work.
    Zachary Clary, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
  • On the classified documents: Joe Biden took 1,800 boxes.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • The questions about Biden’s handling of classified documents may be wrapped up, but those around Biden’s memory are not.
    Brian Bennett, TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The latter session, Schumer said, will be the first-ever classified senators’ briefing on AI.
    Brian Fung, CNN, 7 June 2023
  • This trial will also land just two months before Trump’s trial in the classified documents case.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Trump is already scheduled to stand trial in March in the New York case stemming from hush-money payments made during the 2016 campaign and in May in the classified documents case.
    Alanna Durkin Richer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Trump has been charged in four separate cases that span his handling of classified documents to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
    CBS News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The prosecutor and judge in Donald Trump's classified document case just can't get along.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The classified documents case is one of four criminal cases Trump is facing while marching forward with his 2024 bid to regain the White House.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Some, like Jackson, said these classified hearings demonstrated the need for action.
    Thomas Germain / Gizmodo, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Because of the classified nature of the unit, the service members went unrecognized for nearly half a century.
    Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Knowing how they are classified can aid people in making decisions about what foods to include in their diets.
    Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • There are the fraud cases, the election subversion, the hush money, the improper handling of classified documents, and the ballot challenges.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • After the war, most of these observations languished in classified logbooks for decades and were left out of data sets that formed the backbone of modern climate models.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • And historians continue to request that classified documents from the war be made public in order to see the full extent of crimes.
    Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Trump also faces a federal trial in Florida scheduled in May in the classified documents case that Smith brought against him.
    John Wagner The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Ninety-eight percent of Utah’s 1,080 different classified jobs now do not require a degree.
    Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The launch marks the seventh journey for the unmanned craft, whose contents and activities remain largely classified and shrouded in mystery.
    Dan Carson, Chron, 30 Dec. 2023
  • The United States military offered to use its highly classified network of spy satellites as well as drones and other aircraft to alert the state agency when fires were detected.
    Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The agents are believed to be testifying on the handling of classified information, and their testimony is expected in the next few weeks.
    Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 6 June 2023
  • Here’s an explanation of what classified documents are and the penalties for mishandling them.
    Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Bobb was the attorney that signed off to the Department of Justice that no remaining documents with classified markings were in Trump's possession.
    Isabella Murray, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • This is what Donald Trump said to his supporters hours after pleading not guilty in federal court in June 2023 to his mishandling of classified documents.
    Thomas Zeitzoff, The Conversation, 10 July 2023
  • We were not allowed to photograph some of the recovering soldiers, and several we were not even allowed to speak to, given their classified positions.
    Adi Rubinstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • New — Bob Menendez, indicted on charges of acting as a foreign agent, just attended classified briefing.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2023
  • She's also been involved with Trump's 2020 election subversion case and his classified documents case.
    Isabella Murray, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Last month, the Biden administration scrambled to deal with the fallout from the revelation that classified documents had been sitting publicly on the internet for weeks.
    Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 17 May 2023
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classified

2 of 2 noun
  • Late Wednesday night, Pam was among the first to buy the Village Voice and turn to the real estate classifieds.
    Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
  • The couple met in 1992 through the old-school version of online dating: the classifieds.
    CBS News, 9 June 2018
  • But with the days of scanning the classifieds in a newspaper long behind us, one of the best ways to find a new gig is with the help of an app.
    Kit Eaton, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2016
  • The one in the backseat drops her clove cigarette, burning another hole in the cheap upholstery of the wreck bought off the classifieds.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
  • However, more than a few end up in the classifieds as used cars with bogus background stories.
    Fox News, 30 July 2018
  • For some of us, the weekend yard sales listed in the Inky classifieds constitute a religious ritual.
    New York Times, 25 June 2019
  • And neither is a campaign staffer scouring the classifieds for potential clues about what political ads might be coming down the pipeline.
    Leigh Ann Caldwell, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The one who reputedly killed newspapers' main revenue source, the classifieds.
    Claire Atkinson, NBC News, 12 June 2018
  • Checking online and newspaper classifieds, and consignment shops in your area, might help.
    Leah Napoliello, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Krzemein advertised the brothel on backpage.com, a classifieds website that has come under fire because pimps and prostitutes have advertised on the site.
    Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 1 June 2017
  • Craigslist is an online classifieds site, divided by city or geographic area, through which users advertise a range of goods, services, jobs and housing.
    Michael Nedelman, CNN, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Then, after creating a fake user profile on the other classifieds site, the worker fishes for the advertiser's email or phone number.
    Tom Jackman and Jonathan O'Connell, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2017
  • Indeed, Donald Trump’s war on the media has not been similarly profitable for the many regional papers that were gutted in the last decade with the demise of classifieds and other advertising.
    Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 4 May 2017
  • The measure, proposed by Senator Rob Portman, was drawn up following 2016 reports that adults and children were being trafficked on the classifieds website Backpage.com.
    Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 21 Mar. 2018
  • His next two — Luna and Nova — were on a local classifieds website’s miscellaneous old clutter section.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Facebook Marketplace Facebook Marketplace is a classifieds platform that harnesses all the social media power of Facebook.
    Kim Komando, Fox News, 22 July 2018
  • Earnings at Naspers were also boosted by improved profitability at some of the company’s e-commerce units, including online classifieds, payments and travel businesses.
    Alexandra Wexler, WSJ, 22 June 2018
  • Bascobert likened the business to traditional classifieds, for example, connecting homeowners with plumbers.
    Kerry Flynn, CNN, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Kijiji, not Craigslist, dominates online classifieds here.
    The New York Times, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Larkin worked out a lucrative revenue model, emphasizing classifieds and personals.
    Christine Biederman, WIRED, 18 June 2019
  • Digital titans Facebook and Google have captured the majority of advertising that once supported local journalism, Craigslist has wreaked havoc on classifieds and free news outlets have proliferated online.
    Sarah Rankin, The Seattle Times, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Late Wednesday night, Pam was among the first to buy the Village Voice and turn to the real estate classifieds.
    Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
  • The couple met in 1992 through the old-school version of online dating: the classifieds.
    CBS News, 9 June 2018
  • But with the days of scanning the classifieds in a newspaper long behind us, one of the best ways to find a new gig is with the help of an app.
    Kit Eaton, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2016
  • The one in the backseat drops her clove cigarette, burning another hole in the cheap upholstery of the wreck bought off the classifieds.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
  • However, more than a few end up in the classifieds as used cars with bogus background stories.
    Fox News, 30 July 2018
  • For some of us, the weekend yard sales listed in the Inky classifieds constitute a religious ritual.
    New York Times, 25 June 2019
  • And neither is a campaign staffer scouring the classifieds for potential clues about what political ads might be coming down the pipeline.
    Leigh Ann Caldwell, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The one who reputedly killed newspapers' main revenue source, the classifieds.
    Claire Atkinson, NBC News, 12 June 2018
  • Checking online and newspaper classifieds, and consignment shops in your area, might help.
    Leah Napoliello, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018

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