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- noun Alternative spelling of
alter ego .
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Examples
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John adopted an alter-ego, The Pictish Trail, but never seemed to record anything.
Andrew Lawrence: my comic partner swapped Edinburgh festival for The Pictish Trail 2011
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Looking ahead to their next projects, Connolly said he hoped to land on another long-running TV show, while Grenier's professional aspirations sounded strikingly familiar to that of his onscreen alter-ego, Vincent Chase.
The Cast of Entourage Says Goodbye -- For Now; Confident Movie Will Happen 2011
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From what we know about Eminem it's not hard to imagine his conversations with his alter-ego and girlfriend in "Space Bound" as a metaphor for the futility of breaking up.
Marcia Dawkins: Devils, Doppelgangers and Darkness from Eminem Marcia Dawkins 2011
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From what we know about Eminem it's not hard to imagine his conversations with his alter-ego and girlfriend in "Space Bound" as a metaphor for the futility of breaking up.
Marcia Dawkins: Devils, Doppelgangers and Darkness from Eminem Marcia Dawkins 2011
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From what we know about Eminem it's not hard to imagine his conversations with his alter-ego and girlfriend in "Space Bound" as a metaphor for the futility of breaking up.
Marcia Dawkins: Devils, Doppelgangers and Darkness from Eminem Marcia Dawkins 2011
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Viewers can look forward to finding out how Kutcher's character will replace Charlie Harper, the alter-ego of fired star Charlie Sheen.
Ashton Kutcher and Jon Cryer Strip Down for Two and a Half Men Poster 2011
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Peter Parker and his alter-ego have conquered New York in the funny pages, on the silver screen and even the small screen, but come 2010 he is set to take Broadway by storm.
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Literature's most unreliable narrator, Humbert Humbert, projects his distorted view of Lolita as sadistically refusing to love him, which the prepubescent Margaux grotesquely echoes by acting out a whorish, sexually punishing alter-ego, Nina.
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After her alter-ego was exposed by FITS in August of 2009, Maguire resigned her post on the state board and briefly fled to Canada.
Warring Moralists 2011
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From what we know about Eminem it's not hard to imagine his conversations with his alter-ego and girlfriend in "Space Bound" as a metaphor for the futility of breaking up.
Marcia Dawkins: Devils, Doppelgangers and Darkness from Eminem Marcia Dawkins 2011
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