complimentary
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The hotel has two complimentary chargers in a parking lot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
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
"He was very complimentary and it sounds like he was actually watching it," Jamieson told BBC Sport Scotland.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
My copies of his poems went back to him with long, complimentary comments.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
"Now sure, Captain Jack, ye's always full of your complimentaries," replied the sutler, taking the bridle of her customer.
From The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
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
Through some unaccountable oversight, they neglected to specially mark or punch these complimentaries.
From A Pirate of Parts by Richard Neville
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
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