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After looking on an online
[dictionary](http://jisho.org/search/%E8%A1%A8%E7%B4%99%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B) I
figured out that we can add **する** to **表紙** meaning "To appear on the cover".
However, after talking with a native Japanese speaker, she told me that this
verb doesn't exist and they use another expression to mean the same thing. So
my question is, does **表紙する** really exist and if yes, how can I use it?
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Does the verb 表紙する exist?
表紙する does not make sense to me. I also think this is a mistake of jisho.org.

Instead, we can say 表紙になる, which means "to appear on the cover of a magazine".
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It doesn't seem to be an established construction. I've never seen it before,
and when I looked for examples online, I was only able to find conversion
errors where it seems people intended to write 表示する. I was unable to find any
real world examples.

JMDICT, which is the dictionary used by the website you linked to, is a
project maintained by a number of different volunteers and can be expected to
contain some mistakes. In this case, my guess is that someone did run across
表紙する before adding it to the dictionary, but it was a conversion error rather
than a legitimate example.

All of the other dictionaries I consulted listed 表紙 only as a noun.
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