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The phrase "as a slab" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are comparing something to a slab, often referring to a flat, thick piece of material or a metaphorical representation of something solid and unyielding.
Example: "The stone was cut as a slab, ready to be used for the countertop."
Alternatives: "like a slab" or "in the form of a slab."
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"The people who don't like it perceive it as a slab of nihilism.
I fell into a shallow crevice and watched as a slab of snow broke into chunks that tumbled down like giant cinderblocks.
The new pubs used what is known as a slab serif font – bold and modern, yet retaining the traditional tails on the letters.
The ice is as resilient as a slab of concrete, and I have heard stories of cracked skulls and faces scraped raw.
It's in three chips because it's a nine-storey building and if you do it as a slab it just looks like a nine-storey slab.
No one at Conde Nast would refer to the gleaming, architecturally self-conscious building that houses their offices as a "slab".
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(As well as under a "slab of granite" described by the Village Voice in a 1999 dispatch from Section One-4 of Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, N.Y).
I baked mine as a big slab of dough, cut them into chips, fried them in vegetable oil and salted them generously.
'It was as if a slab of cement had landed on my chest, preventing me from inhaling,' she remembers.
Paul might as well be a slab of meat.
Cock in Wine No. 2 Buy four pieces of chicken and as small a slab of pork fat or bacon as you can find.
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