Examples of unseal in a Sentence
The court unsealed the documents in the Douglas trial today.
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Stefan Pildes, 50, of Hewitt, New Jersey, was arrested on Wednesday and awaited an appearance in Manhattan federal court, where an indictment charging him with wire fraud was unsealed.
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ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
The Times-Advocate newspaper reported the terms of the settlement Thursday after its attorney, seeking a court order to unseal the file, came across the settlement terms in an unsealed court file.
—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
ProPublica was part of a news coalition that sued to unseal the affidavit.
—Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 13 Apr. 2026
The warrants had previously been sealed from public view, but were ordered unsealed Wednesday by a Riverside Superior Court judge following a motion to make the documents public filed by a coalition of media outlets that included the San Francisco Chronicle.
—Raheem Hosseini, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2026
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ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
The Times-Advocate newspaper reported the terms of the settlement Thursday after its attorney, seeking a court order to unseal the file, came across the settlement terms in an unsealed court file.
—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
ProPublica was part of a news coalition that sued to unseal the affidavit.
—Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 13 Apr. 2026
The warrants had previously been sealed from public view, but were ordered unsealed Wednesday by a Riverside Superior Court judge following a motion to make the documents public filed by a coalition of media outlets that included the San Francisco Chronicle.
—Raheem Hosseini, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2026
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“Unseal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unseal. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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unseal
verb
un·seal
ˌən-ˈsē(ə)l 
ˈən-
: to break or remove the seal of
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