complementary

In his short tenure as owner, the team said goodbye to LeBron James, gave Austin Reaves a long contract extension, traded for impact center Walker Kessler and signed several complementary players.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

"If people understand why these species should be preserved, then our enforcement will only be complementary to those who decide to be recalcitrant."

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Teledyne Chief Executive Robert Mehrabian said the companies serve similar customers with related technologies, though its products are uniquely complementary with minimal overlap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

They also conducted complementary ex-situ experiments in Prague, which made it possible to observe the samples over longer periods.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

Vincent experiments with bright colors as well as complementary colors.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

For harmony, as well as for richness, the law of complementaries, in its most general application, is the safest of all guides, but it must be followed with fine discrimination.

From Architecture and Democracy by Claude Fayette Bragdon

Greenish-yellow and blue are a pair of complementaries, as already mentioned.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various

Cosmic reaction has set in, and union between complementaries is the result.

From Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex by Alexander J. (Alexander James) McIvor-Tyndall