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Recent Examples of unseal
The New York Times filed its letter July 30, urging the judge overseeing the estate to unseal the reports, saying they were designated as confidential without any justification for the sealing.
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Julie K. Brown Miami Herald, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2025
In its letter to the USVI judge supporting the Times’ arguments to unseal, the Herald’s lawyer pointed out the importance of the records in holding government leaders and institutions accountable.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, a federal judge upheld the judicial system's commitment to confidentiality by rejecting the DOJ's request to unseal grand jury transcripts connected to Epstein's case.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
The release came with little warning, days after federal judges denied the DOJ's requests to unseal grand jury materials from both Maxwell and Epstein's criminal cases.
—Michael Ruiz , Julia Bonavita , David Spunt, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Julie K. Brown Miami Herald, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2025
In its letter to the USVI judge supporting the Times’ arguments to unseal, the Herald’s lawyer pointed out the importance of the records in holding government leaders and institutions accountable.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, a federal judge upheld the judicial system's commitment to confidentiality by rejecting the DOJ's request to unseal grand jury transcripts connected to Epstein's case.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
The release came with little warning, days after federal judges denied the DOJ's requests to unseal grand jury materials from both Maxwell and Epstein's criminal cases.
—Michael Ruiz , Julia Bonavita , David Spunt, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unseal
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When a school attendant unlocked the iron gates, parents and siblings walked onto the blue playground turf, scanning children grouped mostly by class.—
Maeva Bambuck,
CNN Money,
1 Feb. 2026
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Jones praised Pitts' talent and believes the 25-year-old is on the cusp of unlocking his full potential.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
1 Feb. 2026
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Well, technically in person: Shelley leaves the door ajar but doesn’t unlatch it, so Aggie has to plead her case through the crack.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
13 Nov. 2025
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Raven is ever attentive to the imaging of the West as a kind of battleground, where surveillance (and the camera’s inexorable links to the military apparatus) tussles with sentimentality in a centuries-long project from which the national psyche cannot seem to unlatch.—
Anne Reeve,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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If your button-down outfit is in need of a little spice, a quick trick is to unfasten the top and slip out a single shoulder.—
Sri Rain Stewart,
InStyle,
13 Jan. 2026
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Skinny Pedro unfastened his seat belt and turned his seat around to face me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Unseal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unseal. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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