declassify
verb
de·clas·si·fy
(ˌ)dē-ˈkla-sə-ˌfī 
declassified; declassifying; declassifies
: to remove or reduce the security classification of
declassify a secret document
Examples of declassify in a Sentence
The government has not yet declassified that information.
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Patel, a former GOP congressional staffer and Trump national security aide, previously fought to declassify documents that would have undercut the FBI’s probe into connections between Russia and Trump’s 2016 campaign.
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Brett Samuels, The Hill, 21 May 2025
Editors’ Picks The president and the secretary of defense have the ability to assert, even retroactively, that information is declassified.
—Karoun Demirjian, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Trump’s most meaningful gesture toward transparency has been ordering documents concerning the assassinations of the two Kennedys and of Martin Luther King, Jr., to be declassified.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
The trove of documents were declassified and made available to the public on April 28 at the urging of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish advocacy group named for the famed late Nazi hunter.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025
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Brett Samuels, The Hill, 21 May 2025
Editors’ Picks The president and the secretary of defense have the ability to assert, even retroactively, that information is declassified.
—Karoun Demirjian, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Trump’s most meaningful gesture toward transparency has been ordering documents concerning the assassinations of the two Kennedys and of Martin Luther King, Jr., to be declassified.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
The trove of documents were declassified and made available to the public on April 28 at the urging of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish advocacy group named for the famed late Nazi hunter.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025
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“Declassify.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/declassify. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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