cover story

noun

: a story accompanying a magazine-cover illustration

Examples of cover story in a Sentence

The magazine recently did a cover story on diabetes.

Recent Examples on the Web

Those interviews spawned a cover story in collaboration with Rolling Stone Canada — but there was even more from the conversations. — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2026

The alleged violation of the settlement stemmed from a cover story of Barnett in The Hollywood Reporter. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026

In a new cover story with Vanity Fair, the controversial tech exec addressed the movie for the first time, which depicts the five-day period in 2023 when he was ousted from OpenAI and then rehired. — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026

The vocalist also previously opened up about dating in her May Billboard cover story. — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1948, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for cover story

• allegory
• amatory
• auditory
• category
• clerestory
• crematory
• desultory
• dilatory
• dormitory
• excretory
• feudatory
• gustatory