Examples of unseal in a Sentence
The court unsealed the documents in the Douglas trial today.
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The federal indictment was filed on April 15 and unsealed on June 23, prosecutors said.
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Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
Five people were charged in a 23-count federal indictment unsealed this month in the Middle District of Georgia following a Homeland Security Task Force investigation led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
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Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2026
The state, through Attorney General William Tong’s office, actively fought the release of the video in court, but the judge decided to unseal it after attorneys for the family, the ACLU and the Connecticut Examiner, a news organization, pushed for its release.
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Ginny Monk,
Hartford Courant,
27 June 2026
In April 2025, a judge unsealed a portion of a 2017 search warrant into Vansice's vehicle movements, per CBS News.
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Yasmeen Hamadeh,
PEOPLE,
27 June 2026
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Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
Five people were charged in a 23-count federal indictment unsealed this month in the Middle District of Georgia following a Homeland Security Task Force investigation led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
—
Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2026
The state, through Attorney General William Tong’s office, actively fought the release of the video in court, but the judge decided to unseal it after attorneys for the family, the ACLU and the Connecticut Examiner, a news organization, pushed for its release.
—
Ginny Monk,
Hartford Courant,
27 June 2026
In April 2025, a judge unsealed a portion of a 2017 search warrant into Vansice's vehicle movements, per CBS News.
—
Yasmeen Hamadeh,
PEOPLE,
27 June 2026
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“Unseal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unseal. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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unseal
verb
un·seal
ˌən-ˈsē(ə)l 
ˈən-
: to break or remove the seal of
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