face-lifting
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“One stays, unless possessed of tremendous courage, for 30 or 40 years, or until further face-lifting becomes impractical.”
From Slate • Oct. 25, 2011
For those apprehensive about anything so drastic, there is the face-lifting change in spelling: Debbie now wishes to be Debi, or Debbey.
From Time Magazine Archive
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As part of the main library's $45 million face-lifting, the catalog room is being computerized, its 8,973 drawers and 10 million cards replaced by a central memory bank and 50 low-slung terminals.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The new cars, which will come out in mid-October, represent a $175 million face-lifting job on the 1955 models.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She'd found out, somewhere, that Conn had been the originator of the municipal face-lifting project.
From The Cosmic Computer by Piper, H. Beam