How to Use classified in a Sentence

classified

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  • The part of the report that includes classified information was removed before the report was made public.
  • Here’s what to know about the classified documents case.
    — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Trump has been crying foul on the campaign trail for much of the last year, noting that Biden had also stored classified materials in his garage.
    — Zeke Miller The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
  • But the spy rejected the honor, which only vaguely referenced his wartime service due to the classified nature of the work.
    — Zachary Clary, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
  • On the classified documents: Joe Biden took 1,800 boxes.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • The questions about Biden’s handling of classified documents may be wrapped up, but those around Biden’s memory are not.
    — Brian Bennett, TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The latter session, Schumer said, will be the first-ever classified senators’ briefing on AI.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 7 June 2023
  • This trial will also land just two months before Trump’s trial in the classified documents case.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Trump is already scheduled to stand trial in March in the New York case stemming from hush-money payments made during the 2016 campaign and in May in the classified documents case.
    — Alanna Durkin Richer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Trump has been charged in four separate cases that span his handling of classified documents to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
    — CBS News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The prosecutor and judge in Donald Trump's classified document case just can't get along.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The classified documents case is one of four criminal cases Trump is facing while marching forward with his 2024 bid to regain the White House.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Some, like Jackson, said these classified hearings demonstrated the need for action.
    — Thomas Germain / Gizmodo, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Because of the classified nature of the unit, the service members went unrecognized for nearly half a century.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Knowing how they are classified can aid people in making decisions about what foods to include in their diets.
    — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • There are the fraud cases, the election subversion, the hush money, the improper handling of classified documents, and the ballot challenges.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • After the war, most of these observations languished in classified logbooks for decades and were left out of data sets that formed the backbone of modern climate models.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • And historians continue to request that classified documents from the war be made public in order to see the full extent of crimes.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Trump also faces a federal trial in Florida scheduled in May in the classified documents case that Smith brought against him.
    — John Wagner The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Ninety-eight percent of Utah’s 1,080 different classified jobs now do not require a degree.
    — Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The launch marks the seventh journey for the unmanned craft, whose contents and activities remain largely classified and shrouded in mystery.
    — Dan Carson, Chron, 30 Dec. 2023
  • The United States military offered to use its highly classified network of spy satellites as well as drones and other aircraft to alert the state agency when fires were detected.
    — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The agents are believed to be testifying on the handling of classified information, and their testimony is expected in the next few weeks.
    — Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 6 June 2023
  • Here’s an explanation of what classified documents are and the penalties for mishandling them.
    — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Bobb was the attorney that signed off to the Department of Justice that no remaining documents with classified markings were in Trump's possession.
    — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • This is what Donald Trump said to his supporters hours after pleading not guilty in federal court in June 2023 to his mishandling of classified documents.
    — Thomas Zeitzoff, The Conversation, 10 July 2023
  • We were not allowed to photograph some of the recovering soldiers, and several we were not even allowed to speak to, given their classified positions.
    — Adi Rubinstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • New — Bob Menendez, indicted on charges of acting as a foreign agent, just attended classified briefing.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2023
  • She's also been involved with Trump's 2020 election subversion case and his classified documents case.
    — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Last month, the Biden administration scrambled to deal with the fallout from the revelation that classified documents had been sitting publicly on the internet for weeks.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 17 May 2023

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