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de·clas·sify (dē klasə fī′, dē-)

transitive verb declassified -·fied′, declassifying -·fy′·ing

☆ to remove (governmental documents, reports, etc.) from secret or restricted classifications

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declassify Usage Examples

Object

  • record: The CIA has resisted even presidential mandates to declassify the record.

Preposition: since

  • passage: Much of this material has been declassified since the passage of the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act.

Modifying Another Word

  • newly: He has continued research on the newly declassified archives of the Russian secret police with Iain's latest project on the early Stalinist OGPU.
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