complementary

City and county cultural affairs officials presented complementary efforts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

To track what happened during the reaction, the team combined two complementary X-ray methods.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 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

Wilkinson said the two parties were looking at areas "where we have complementary capabilities and needs" and that are "strategically important" to "ensure our sovereignty", such as energy, artificial intelligence and critical minerals.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

Some of the littluns started a ring on their own; and the complementary circles went round and round as though repetition would achieve safety of itself.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

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

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

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 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