How to Use declassify in a Sentence

declassify

verb

• The government has not yet declassified that information.
• Reed is calling for the video of the strike to be declassified and made public.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2025
• 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
• Even when the files on his war were declassified in 2013, few people noticed.
  — Robert Hutton, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
• Then, this week, it was disclosed in court that the secret eavesdropping program had been declassified.
  — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• And there's lots of things the president can do like that, to declassify information.
  — Fox News, 3 June 2018
• There was nothing to declassify.
  — Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
• According to the Post, the transcripts have not been declassified.
  — Alana Abramson, PEOPLE.com, 3 Aug. 2017
• Haspel’s past and is making a mockery of the confirmation process by not declassifying more.
  — Liz Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• The only way for the American people to judge is to declassify these documents and get them out.
  — Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
• They may not be declassified, if at all, until years or decades after the end of the administration that issued them.
  — Melinda Haas, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2025
• Thousands of documents related to the Chile coup have been declassified over the years.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• The number, which has been declassified every year for nearly a decade, is once again classified and not for public knowledge.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2019
• The simple problem is that the government classifies too much and doesn’t declassify enough.
  — The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 1 Sep. 2019
• Trump as a presidential candidate had promised to declassify those files.
  — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
• In the years after her book was published, millions more pages were declassified, always under pressure from the public.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 20 June 2026
• Some have noted that some alien evidence has been declassified recently and barely made a ripple.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 June 2026
• Haspel supervised one of those detention sites in Thailand, but details of her work there have not been declassified.
  — Lisa Marasco, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2018
• Once the program was declassified, the next step was finding scientists to do the necessary studies.
  — Sharon Weinberger, Smithsonian, 7 May 2018
• These details about his work in Moscow, which were recently declassified, came from the draft of a forthcoming book.
  — Sam Walker, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2019
• The heist remained a secret until it was declassified in 2019.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2024
• In April more than 50 House members urged State to declassify the report.
  — Richard Goldberg and, WSJ, 5 July 2018
• About two years ago, Russia declassified footage from the test, which shows a giant mushroom cloud formed in the sky post-detonation.
  — Daniel Drainville, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2024
• Truth surfaces, if at all, decades later, when secrets may be declassified too late to redress the stupendous harm in the interim.
  — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2025
• The department said the materials are being released on a rolling basis as records are found, reviewed and declassified.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026
• Kirby did not say how the United States obtained the intelligence, which had been declassified.
  — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2023
• In 2014, raiders won 72% of votes cast to declassify Costco's board and still lost, because that was less than half of all shares.
  — Kyle Westaway, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• Of the thousands of documents that purportedly made up the case against Gul, only 24 pages had at first been declassified and turned over.
  — Longreads, 1 Mar. 2018
• Maybe in 50 years this will all be declassified, but, for now, we’re left wondering about some major moments and logistics, compiled below.
  — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2025
• The venture was declassified in 1992, just months after the fall of the Soviet Union.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 23 June 2023