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Recent Examples of unseal
The media lawyers also are seeking to unseal a transcript of testimony given in October by Department of Justice attorney Sean Skedzielewski, which was done in a closed courtroom after the government claimed there were national security concerns.
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Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
The Justice Department has gone to court to unseal grand jury testimony in the case, a move that has been rejected by the courts as such materials are seldom unsealed.
—The Hill Staff, The Hill, 17 Sep. 2025
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.
—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
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Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
The Justice Department has gone to court to unseal grand jury testimony in the case, a move that has been rejected by the courts as such materials are seldom unsealed.
—The Hill Staff, The Hill, 17 Sep. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unseal
Verb
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The storm, which hit the New York area in October, 2012, unlocked billions of dollars in resilience spending, with hurricanes, rather than heat waves or cloudbursts, as the focus.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Philanthropy is at a tipping point, yet is more essential than ever in unlocking the inherent strength and potential within communities.—
Semafor Events,
semafor.com,
5 Apr. 2026
Verb
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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
Verb
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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 7 Apr. 2026.
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