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
In a culture hipped on youth, face-lifting is becoming an economic survival tool.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The seedy waterfront is undergoing a face-lifting, and many of the city's Victorian buildings have been transformed from shabby relics into stylist shops, restaurants and dwellings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Later in the season Maude will even have a face-lifting, after conceding that she feels "like an old hen with a turkey's neck and crow's-feet�I could be the centerfold for the Audubon Society."
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