covering letter
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Lots of places still ask for a CV and a covering letter when you're applying for a job.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2023
Governments have been invited to give their "feedback" to the draft before Sept. 6, according to a covering letter sent to the United Nations by Chinese environment minister Huang Runqiu.
From Reuters • Aug. 27, 2021
A covering letter showed that she’d arranged to sign these in front of the lawyer a few days later.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2015
Oh, and the time a woman emailed a covering letter for a job and instead of attaching her CV, accidentally attached this photo of Nicolas Cage instead.
From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2014
When the insertions arrived in Florence, the covering letter from Riccardi included the sentence, ‘the author may alter or embellish the wording, so long as the substance is preserved’.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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