counterpart

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The project is designed to look for an extremely rare event in which muonium, a short lived system made of a positive muon bound to an electron, spontaneously transforms into antimuonium, its antimatter counterpart.

From Science Daily

State investigators, meanwhile, have accused their federal counterparts of blocking them from investigating the shooting.

From Salon

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was in Turkey last week and held further calls with his Egyptian, Saudi and Turkish counterparts, he said on Telegram.

From Barron's

Small-cap stocks tend to outperform their large-cap counterparts in the first month of a new year, a trend that’s commonly referred to as the “January effect.”

From MarketWatch

The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday on the future of what used to be called the National Public Safety Broadband Network; its Senate counterpart did so last week.

From The Wall Street Journal