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Synonyms

look alive

Idioms  

  1. Act lively, hurry up, as in Look alive! This job has to be finished today. This phrase, often used as an imperative, today is more common in Britain than in America. [Mid-1800s]

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But the looks were on a dummy M3gan, and she didn’t look alive.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2023

For the uninitiated, makeup is essential on camera not so much to make you look better — though that’s a bonus — but to make you look alive.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022

We wanted them to look alive and happy.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2019

And throughout, Hughes keeps finding ways to make their bland suburban school look alive.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2017

Only their eyes look alive as they seethe with more rage and hate.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

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