cover story
Example Sentences
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The secret, he explained, is that mowing the lawn is a cover story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The research was featured as the cover story in Significance, the flagship magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
The first Bulletin cover story on climate change was in 1978 — a long time before anybody else was looking at it.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
If Spielberg’s earlier UFO movies gave us awe, comfort and catastrophe, this one feels like an encounter of a fourth kind: What happens when the cover story breaks?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
I don’t know why, but when my mind and his mind concocted our cover story, we left a hole in it.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
