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cover-up

[kuhv-er-uhp] / ˈkʌv ərˌʌp /




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Emma added there had been "cover-up over candour".

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

George Osborne, the museum's chair of trustees, told me it was a "pretty elaborate cover-up job".

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

Human rights activists and relatives of the missing quickly denounced the report as a cover-up — the latest attempt to “disappear the disappeared.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

“It’s incredibly serious, points to a possible cover-up and is something that is just developing,” he said.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2026

“I don’t think they’re hacking birds. I think it’s a cover-up for something else. But I don’t know what.”

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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