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cover-up

[kuhv-er-uhp] / ˈkʌv ərˌʌp /




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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

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

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

From BBC Jun. 8, 2026

Dean, who had helped organize the cover-up, described the Plumbers and the Ellsberg break-in.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Connor also denied any suggestion that NHS Tayside "involved itself in cover-ups."

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Can you lay out the lies and fabrications and cover-ups?

From Slate Nov. 14, 2025

Warning of the risk of medical cover-ups, Baroness May said she had a friend who calls it the "license to kill Bill".

From BBC Sep. 12, 2025

In turn, Patel tweeted a pledge that “There will be no cover-ups, no missing documents.”

From Slate Jul. 15, 2025

Sussex Police is examining concerns about avoidable harm and cover-ups in the trust's neurosurgery and general surgery departments between 2015 and 2021.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2025




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