complimentary
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The complimentary appetizer that was once cheap enough to disappear into the cost of doing business becomes expensive enough to notice.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Caruso was complimentary of the mayor’s leadership at the groundbreaking for the new center, which will replace one destroyed in the 2025 Palisades fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
None of the songs about him were complimentary.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
American now offers Bottega, an Italian sparkling wine, complimentary in the main cabin on international flights, in addition to the usual red and white.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
“I think it’s the sweetest, most complimentary thing I ever heard in my life,” Mrs. X said warmly to me.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
When it became evident to Fuller that the venture was not going to pay, he sent out a flood of complimentaries to the school-teachers of New York City and the surrounding districts.
From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) by Albert Bigelow Paine
Through some unaccountable oversight, they neglected to specially mark or punch these complimentaries.
From A Pirate of Parts by Richard Neville
Why, if I had an interest in your show I could fill your place with complimentaries 30 to the real people of Seaside Park.
From The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
Fuller, however, always ready for an emergency, sent out a flood of complimentaries to the school-teachers of New York and adjacent territory, and the house was crammed.
From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) by Albert Bigelow Paine
No a dime, he says; but he showed me a bunch of complimentaries and laughed and said he’d sell them cheap.
From The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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