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cover stories

cover stories is the plural of cover story.

Meaning of cover story

Noun

cover story (plural cover stories)

  1. A story included in a publication that is highlighted on the front cover.
    • We didn't even think it was that important, at first, and yet by the end of the week it had become the cover story of the next issue.
  2. A fictitious account that is intended to hide one's real motive.
    • The cover story of an intelligence agent posing as a foreign service officer is called a diplomatic cover in the trade.
  3. (broadly) Any fictitious account used to hide, distract from, or falsely explain the truth which one intends to conceal.

Questions about cover stories

What is cover stories the plural of?
Cover stories is the plural of cover story.

Words near cover stories in the dictionary

  1. cover someone's back
  2. cover song
  3. cover songs
  4. cover stock
  5. cover stocks
  6. cover stories
  7. cover story
  8. cover the bases
  9. cover the buckle
  10. cover the spot
  11. cover the waterfront

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cover stories (page history and authors); cover story (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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