complementary

City and county cultural affairs officials presented complementary efforts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Sentinel-3's different instruments observe ice in complementary ways, helping scientists better understand changes across these vulnerable polar environments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Singapore has long been promoting the Riau Islands, which includes Batam, and the Malaysian state of Johor as "complementary" regions.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

“I believe that all great American cities are anchored by great universities and Carnegie Mellon will bring a great university here to Miami complementary to other universities here in the region,” Griffin said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Why were the two strands complementary to each other—A matched with T, and G matched with C—like a molecular yin and yang?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

But yellow and purple are not the only complementaries.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst

There are pairs of so-called complementaries which make a very crude, harsh, even painful impression.

From The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Dench Puffer Howes

The placing of complementaries so as to increase contrast is another way of adding to the brilliancy of light.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst