complementary
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"By combining complementary X-ray techniques at LCLS, this work provides a uniquely complete view of these coupled processes, opening new opportunities to understand and ultimately control the chemistry that underpins energy conversion and catalysis."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
“It’s a way for them to to show a willingness to integrate within cities and to be more complementary rather than replacing,” Cornet said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 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
Other incentives locations offer potential new residents are complementary cinema tickets, restaurant vouchers, and even free bottles of wine.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Vincent experiments with bright colors as well as complementary colors.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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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
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
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
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