complementary
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"Every method has its advantages and disadvantages, and we believe in a complementary implementation in the future," Kueppers said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 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
“In our view, it has the potential to create meaningful value given Evonik’s complementary portfolio and relatively undemanding valuation,” the bank argues, noting the attractiveness of consolidation in Europe’s chemicals business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
“Public transit networks and shared autonomous vehicles are part of a complementary mobility ecosystem,” Waymo said in its announcement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
The overwhelming biological merits of a self- complementary DNA molecule made him effectively concede the race.
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
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
If this colour is deep, it gives rise to a luminous complementary, such as orange, or yellow, and enfeebles the black; while the other complementaries, such as violet or green, strengthen and purify it.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
The great difficulty lies in discovering the conditions governing these groups of numbers, the pairing of the complementaries in the squares of four and the formation of the diagonals.
From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
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