Example Sentences

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For decades, reporters wearing identification badges had wide-ranging access to nonclassified areas of the Pentagon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

The United States is helping Montenegro remove Russian cyberoperatives from nonclassified government systems, a senior Montenegrin official said.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2018

“To prosecute a disclosure of nonclassified information is not impossible, but it would require some legal acrobatics we have not seen in a while.”

From Washington Times • Jul. 31, 2017

FBI officials are investigating some leaks of classified material but have resisted pressure from the administration to probe nonclassified matters, these people said.

From Washington Post • May 12, 2017

Chinese hackers reportedly gained access to the nonclassified data on the defense secretary’s computer in 2007, but machines containing classified information are far more difficult to contact.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2012