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Free sign upThe phrase "as compliment" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be a truncated version of "as a compliment," which can be used when giving praise or expressing admiration.
Example: "I offered her the gift as a compliment for her hard work and dedication."
Alternatives: "as a gesture of praise" or "as a form of admiration."
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It's why the moniker "model minority" feels just as much like an insult as compliment.
Conversely, the Europeans see "white" as compliment, and July and other slaves celebrate blackness.
Perhaps this split personality has its origins in the restaurant's name: "bobo," an abbreviated portmanteau of "bourgeois" and "bohemian," is one of those terms which are used more often as denigration than as compliment.
Seeding doesn't replace traditional advertising so much as compliment it.
Based on their comments, they appear to feel -- still -- that Shonda Rhimes, her viewers and readers of the Times should take the piece as as compliment.
Indeed, genetically modified mouse models in which genes for vital elements of cell recognition and clearance machinery such as compliment C1q or MFG-E8 have been deleted display an autoimmune phenotype resembling systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
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