cover-up

Example Sentences

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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 centred around the cover-up of a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

One thing is certain: The cover-up isn’t being conducted in the shadows.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2026

A lie’s a cover-up every time, it’s something a man says when he don’t want the truth out.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson