cover story

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noun
  1. a magazine article highlighted by an illustration on the cover.

  2. a fabricated story used to conceal a true purpose; alibi: No one believed the cover story released to the press.

Origin of cover story

1
First recorded in 1945–50

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cover story

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]

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