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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
Example Sentences
In a 2024 cover story for Interview magazine, the singer said starting a family “was the best thing that ever happened to us.”
Hudson was right that, in the three years since New York magazine's cover story caused so much controversy, nepo babies haven't slunk off into the background.
And like President Trump now, President Biden showed that nice-sounding rhetoric could serve as a tidy cover story for choosing to enable nonstop horrors without letup.
Unsurprisingly, a deeper read of the cable shows that "anti-Christian bias" is the cover story propped up to justify Rubio's actual assault on freedom of religion at State.
In February, New York Magazine published a cover story saying Newsweek columnist and CBS News contributor Joe Klein was the author, but he denied it so vehemently that speculation about others continued for months.
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