overclassified
/ˌoʊvərˈklæsɪfaɪd/
adjective
- Marked as secret or restricted when it should not be, especially in government or military contexts.
- Critics argue that the government overclassified the file to avoid embarrassment.
- The report was overclassified, hiding information that should have been public.
- Many documents from the 1950s were overclassified and are now being released.
- Assigned to a category that is too high or too restrictive.
- The overclassified data made it difficult for researchers to access necessary information.
- The software overclassified the email as spam when it was actually important.
- Some plants are overclassified as endangered when they are actually common.
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- Past tense of overclassify; to have assigned something to a category that is too high or too restrictive.
- The agency overclassified the document, preventing journalists from reviewing it.
- The teacher overclassified the student's essay as advanced when it was only intermediate.
- They overclassified the species as threatened without enough evidence.
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