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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declassify.

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Examples

  • Did anyone catch Brit Hume and Cheney working together to roll out an early foundation for Cheney's defense for outing -- or rather "declassifying" -- Valerie Plame's status?

    Joshuah Bearman: Fox Floats Cheney's Trial Balloon 2008

  • KING: Do you like the idea of declassifying a lot of information that has been classified to make both you and the House and the public more aware of what's going on?

    CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2003 2003

  • You've seen variations of this lists everywhere, yet corruption has become so normal at this point that the Bush's latest misdeed, selectively and secretly "declassifying" a national intelligence estimate to provide to a single Administration-friendly reporter (aka. "leaking"), feels like more of the same.

    Greg Saunders: A Hole In The Head 2008

  • In hindsight, releasing the Ben Ali cables at the exact moment that the democracy movement was taking off in Tunisia was a stroke of genius, and by declassifying further sensitive documents from around the region WikiLeaks could give a leg up to nascent democracy movements.

    Nikolas Kozloff: Wikileaks Needs to Fine Tune Its Media Strategy Nikolas Kozloff 2011

  • In hindsight, releasing the Ben Ali cables at the exact moment that the democracy movement was taking off in Tunisia was a stroke of genius, and by declassifying further sensitive documents from around the region WikiLeaks could give a leg up to nascent democracy movements.

    Nikolas Kozloff: Wikileaks Needs to Fine Tune Its Media Strategy Nikolas Kozloff 2011

  • WASHINGTON — The CIA lifted the lid on one corner of the cloak and dagger world of World War I, declassifying six of the oldest secret documents in the U.S. government archives, the agency announced Tuesday.

    Cloak And Dagger World War I Documents Declassified By CIA AP 2011

  • WASHINGTON — The CIA lifted the lid on one corner of the cloak and dagger world of World War I, declassifying six of the oldest secret documents in the U.S. government archives, the agency announced Tuesday.

    Cloak And Dagger World War I Documents Declassified By CIA AP 2011

  • In hindsight, releasing the Ben Ali cables at the exact moment that the democracy movement was taking off in Tunisia was a stroke of genius, and by declassifying further sensitive documents from around the region WikiLeaks could give a leg up to nascent democracy movements.

    Nikolas Kozloff: Wikileaks Needs to Fine Tune Its Media Strategy Nikolas Kozloff 2011

  • WASHINGTON — The CIA lifted the lid on one corner of the cloak and dagger world of World War I, declassifying six of the oldest secret documents in the U.S. government archives, the agency announced Tuesday.

    Cloak And Dagger World War I Documents Declassified By CIA AP 2011

  • WASHINGTON — The CIA lifted the lid on one corner of the cloak and dagger world of World War I, declassifying six of the oldest secret documents in the U.S. government archives, the agency announced Tuesday.

    Cloak And Dagger World War I Documents Declassified By CIA AP 2011

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