complementary
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"If people understand why these species should be preserved, then our enforcement will only be complementary to those who decide to be recalcitrant."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Teledyne Chief Executive Robert Mehrabian said the companies serve similar customers with related technologies, though its products are uniquely complementary with minimal overlap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The company has begun weighing a complementary offering that could be built around advertising sales.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Throughout the day, fans crossed the grounds in bright Latin American soccer jerseys, the eye-catching complementary greens and reds of Mexico and the rich blue of El Salvador dotting the crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Griffith, however, did not go along, since for some months he had preferred a scheme where gene copying was based upon the alternative formation of complementary surfaces.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
But just as much as complementaries, van Gogh loved using colors that are adjacent on the color wheel.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2019
This novel about young Ged’s education in both magic and self-understanding relies throughout on Taoist notions of complementaries — the balance between light and dark, speech and silence, self and shadow.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2016
This symbolism is obvious when we take into our consciousness the truth that only complementaries have the power to act and react, without change, or loss.
From Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex by Alexander J. (Alexander James) McIvor-Tyndall
Greenish-yellow and blue are a pair of complementaries, as already mentioned.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
It has been traditional to consider the complementaries black-white, red-green, blue-yellow, and the other pairs resulting from the mixtures of these as the best combinations.
From The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Dench Puffer Howes
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