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Recent Examples of unseal
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.
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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
The ruling comes after two other courts previously rejected other requests by the DOJ to unseal grand jury materials in cases against Epstein and associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
In July, a Florida judge rejected the administration's request to unseal grand jury records from federal investigations there into Epstein in 2005 and 2007.
—Luc Cohen, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
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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
The ruling comes after two other courts previously rejected other requests by the DOJ to unseal grand jury materials in cases against Epstein and associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
In July, a Florida judge rejected the administration's request to unseal grand jury records from federal investigations there into Epstein in 2005 and 2007.
—Luc Cohen, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unseal
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According to the official, the suspect refused to roll his window down or get out of his car, so the officer broke a rear window and reached inside the car to unlock the door.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Assisted-driving tech is also considered a precursor to fully autonomous cars, which analysts say can unlock huge new markets for ride-hailing fleets as well as personal self-driving vehicles.—
Nora Eckert,
USA Today,
8 Jan. 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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Kelce unfastened the clasp on another necklace and then a third, before Chris Jones, his teammate for a decade, walked over and approached him.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
5 Jan. 2026
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Adama unfastened a padlock and loosened the chain securing the doors.—
Ken Harbaugh,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Unseal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unseal. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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