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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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People would suspect a cover-up if public hearings aren't held.
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Some people suspect that government officials were involved in a cover-up of the incident.
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The Watergate cover-up eventually led to Nixon's resignation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Guilt is not a true emotion; it is a cover-up for other feelings which we feel we shouldn't have.
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Soon there was a cover-up of the cover-up, because senior officers by then knew too much.
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The cover-up lasts to this day, but its genesis is now unravelling.
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The techniques of cover-up are old and familiar.
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There is nothing less than a cultural cover-up about depression in men.