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His characters have always been the same he never had to cover his voice or prosthetically change his face hes only done one roll tossed into different scenario plane and simple. patrick on Sep 7, 2008
Rumor: Matthew McConaughey Possibly Captain America - Blasphemy! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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- Wounded soldiers will be termed as "prosthetically redeployed."
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We're in the wrong business – if we really wanted to make a stack of cash, we'd prosthetically age ourselves and hobble around the world singing a bunch of 40-year-old songs; hey, it's working for The Rolling Stones.
Quickly! Rolling Stones And Take That Tickets Available Now! 2006
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Gwen turned, leaned on the prosthetically elongated end of the picnic table.
Hard Truth Barr, Nevada 2005
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The article said his spine had been prosthetically restructured to allow greater torque.
Achille's Choice Niven, Larry 1991
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Ms. Close is a handsome woman whose natural warmth and poise bear little resemblance to the painfully shy figure on screen, with her downcast eyes and prosthetically altered wingnut ears.
NYT > Home Page By DAVID ROONEY 2011
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Another performer, Zofia Tujaka, appears with what seems to be a prosthetically aged version of herself, but, if this is supposed to be some sort of memento mori, it is woolly in the extreme and makes no sense in this context.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Mark Monahan 2011
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Mouths break their physiological limits, driven by appetite and lust, sprouting sex organs grown through undifferentiated tissue, mutating and prosthetically extending, verbal concupiscence become body-sucking consumption.
Comments for RealityStudio wal 2010
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The result puts forth a gnarled vision of the natural world, carefully twisted, sutured, and pruned but also somehow prosthetically enhanced-propped up and boosted by discarded bits of detritus from our machine civilization.
artforum.com 2010
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'Starship Mine' - as the prosthetically enhanced terrorist leader Administrator Orton, who plotted to steal trilithium from the Enterprise.
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