Cover Story Definition

noun
The article in a magazine that deals with the subject depicted on the cover.
Webster's New World
A false story intended to deceive or mislead.
The spy's cover story required posing as a diplomat.
American Heritage

A story that appears on the front page of a publication.

Wiktionary

(espionage) A fictitious account that is intended to hide one's real motive.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Cover Story

Noun

Singular:
cover story
Plural:
cover-stories

Cover Story Sentence Examples

  • The hunt reached a higher level of journalism when Betsy showed us a magazine cover story on the subject.

  • She wrote a cover story about how the police force is sitting around on their thumbs while the poor widow's little twin darlings remain missing.

  • Inventing the cover story that Iron Man was his bodyguard, he embarked on a double life as a billionaire industrialist and costumed adventurer.

  • In addition, the award-winning company has been the Atlanta Style & Design cover story more than once.

  • Sources close the pair leaked stories about their troubles, but the most convincing evidence that the separation was old news came in the timing of a Vanity Fair cover story featuring Lopez.

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