cover-up
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What started as an innocent mistake has ended up as a bad cover-up.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
But moviegoers won’t soon forget her impressive turn, communicating the stakes of a massive cover-up that sought to prevent the knowledge of aliens walking among humanity for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 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
“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
A bill "to prevent cover-ups" in response to the Hillsborough Disaster will "finally pass after years of frustration".
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Can you lay out the lies and fabrications and cover-ups?
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2025
The government said the new legislation would "end the culture of cover-ups" and learn lessons from wider disasters including the Grenfell Tower fire and the Post Office Horizon and infected blood scandals.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
In turn, Patel tweeted a pledge that “There will be no cover-ups, no missing documents.”
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2025
He said a bill without this "will not command the support of Hillsborough families, nor other victims of state cover-ups".
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025
