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The phrase "a makeup for a" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to refer to a compensation or remedy for something, but the structure is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The company offered a makeup for a missed deadline by providing additional resources."
Alternatives: "a compensation for" or "a remedy for".
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The game was a makeup for a rainout April 25.
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The Yankees 79-588) will play the Red Sox four times in the next four days -- a three-game weekend series in Boston that starts Friday, and a makeup for an early-season rainout at Yankee Stadium on Monday.
On the first episode of "Russian Dolls," Eva Levitis sits at the head of a table, prepping her pancake makeup for a beauty pageant.
She had already spent much of the day in hair and makeup for a photo shoot for a small fashion magazine.
Testcross, the mating of an organism whose genetic constitution is unknown with an organism whose entire genetic makeup for a trait is known, to determine which genes are carried by the former.
Helping others had been in his makeup for a long time.
Here comes hair and makeup for a portrait shoot and Leno appearance.
The show has also been nominated for thirteen Creative Arts Emmy Awards, having won three of them: Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series, Outstanding Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic), and Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special.
The third nomination was not for a specific episode, but for the overall season with the makeup team nominated for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For a Series, Miniseries, Movie Or a Special.
The show was also nominated in the Emmy category "Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Non-Prosthetic)" both in 2004 and 2005, and in the categories "Outstanding Costumes for a Series", "Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series", and "Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special" in 2005.
Despite not being nominated for a Primetime Emmy, the show received two Creative Arts Emmy Awards: Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries, Movie Or A Special for "How Insensitive" and Outstanding Makeup For A Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic) for "Suicide is Painless".
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