cover-up
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She walked her across the street where she bought a cover-up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
What started as an innocent mistake has ended up as a bad cover-up.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Emma added there had been "cover-up over candour".
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
He also says that Freedom of Information requests continue to be turned down and the "cover-up continues".
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Technically, no one was supposed to be living in the building, so the restaurant served as the perfect cover-up for all the people coming and going.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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A bill "to prevent cover-ups" in response to the Hillsborough Disaster will "finally pass after years of frustration".
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The prime minister is expected to scrap plans that would have given security services a blanket exemption from a law designed to prevent cover-ups in public life.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
The families of victims of the Manchester Arena bombing say they cannot support the current form of a new law being designed to stop cover-ups.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
Can you lay out the lies and fabrications and cover-ups?
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2025
In turn, Patel tweeted a pledge that “There will be no cover-ups, no missing documents.”
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2025