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cover story
noun
a magazine article highlighted by an illustration on the cover.
a fabricated story used to conceal a true purpose; alibi.
No one believed the cover story released to the press.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cover story1
Idioms and Phrases
A featured story in a magazine that concerns the illustration on the cover, as in The earthquake is this week's cover story for all the news magazines . [Mid-1900s]
A false story intended to mislead or deceive; also, an alibi. For example, Their cover story while investigating local repair services was that they had just bought the house and were having problems, or The suspect gave the police some cover story about being held up . [Mid-1900s]
Example Sentences
Instead, Lyonne took a hard right in the other direction, giving a tasteless quote to New York Magazine” for their cover story on Hollywood’s move toward AI earlier this month.
That she was more than a pinup was not even then a secret — a Life magazine cover story at the time of “Rock Hunter” called her “Broadway’s smartest dumb blonde.”
In 2008, after about two decades of the public internet, The Atlantic published a cover story asking "Is Google making us stupid?"
In an interview for a Vogue cover story published before the announcement of the deal, she said the success of the Rhode brand had been a surprise.
Fearing they could be pulled over and quizzed by Russian forces, they made up a cover story about going to the beach to get fresh air for Tatyana, who has asthma.
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