complementary

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Anne Marie, a beauty and complementary therapist with her own successful business, was at a pub in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, with her cousins on the night of the incident.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

This coordinated approach reflects elected officials’ determination to address anticompetitive practices while also pursuing complementary housing policies.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

According to a press release from Nature, "Combining the analyses takes advantage of the complementary sensitivities of the two experiments and demonstrates the value of collaboration."

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

“By combining our organizations, we gain critical scale and complementary, integrated capabilities to drive our ambitious growth strategy,” Brink’s Chief Executive Mark Eubanks said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

The damaged copy of a gene is reconstructed using the complementary strand, or the second copy of the gene, as its guide.*

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee