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verb

past tense of classify

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of classified
Adjective
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faced an FBI investigation when classified information was found on her private email server. David French, Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2025 The White House has said the Signal chat did not include classified information, and pointed to the success of that operation in defending the officials on the chat, on which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a specific timeline of the strikes and what weapons would be used. Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 31 Mar. 2025
Verb
Police later classified the case as a homicide. Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2025 The Kansas City Police Department has classified the potential shooting as a death investigation, not a homicide, according to DiMartino. Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for classified
Recent Examples of Synonyms for classified
Adjective
  • According to someone with direct knowledge, the Heat ideally would like to keep point guard Davion Mitchell, an impending restricted free agent who has thrived in a bench role recently after his February acquisition from Toronto.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2025
  • If the Bruins re-sign their restricted free agents and leave their prospects in Providence, that gives them with four slots to fill.
    Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Jenks is taking part in a private memorabilia-signing event arranged by PastPros.
    Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Baker passed a polygraph test arranged by his attorney.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The government in that case, a civil lawsuit, has relied on a 2019 local police report, which used information from a confidential informant to allege Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13.
    Andrew Goudsward and Ted Hesson, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The trial committee recommended that Bush receive a confidential letter of censure and a ban from serving as a strike captain for three years.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Perhaps not surprisingly, nonviolent movements’ success depends on how well they’re organized.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The Missouri Immunization Coalition, which organized the event for April 24-25, also had to lay off half its staff, according to board president Lynelle Phillips.
    Jackie Fortiér, NPR, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • None of this was top secret: the M.L.B.’s website already posts the relative rate at which players connect the barrel of the bat with the ball.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Jared Kushner’s security clearance Trump overruled intelligence officials in 2018 to grant his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a top secret security clearance, according to the New York Times and the Washington Post.
    Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Beyond these achievements, Alex distinguished himself through his partnership with the administration.
    Olivia Antigua, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • That’s an issue because while both hemp and marijuana are cannabis plants, distinguished only by their cannabinoid content, they are regulated differently.
    Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Elo-Rivera said the ordinance is only aimed at nonpublic competitor data, not public housing data sites, like Redfin and Zillow, or market surveys of rent prices.
    Phillip Molnar, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The senators asked the Office of Government Ethics to probe whether any White House or executive branch officials, to include special government employees, were informed of the announcement in advance and what financial transactions were made by officials with knowledge of nonpublic information.
    Isabella Murray, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The Sheriff’s Office said the call was not categorized as a mental health crisis.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • To tackle the problem, the group categorized possible dissections of an equilateral triangle based on how the cuts intersect the triangle’s edges.
    Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025

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“Classified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/classified. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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