complementary
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But that may make him complementary to United's other options rather than a direct alternative.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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
The company has begun weighing a complementary offering that could be built around advertising sales.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Throughout the day, fans crossed the grounds in bright Latin American soccer jerseys, the eye-catching complementary greens and reds of Mexico and the rich blue of El Salvador dotting the crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
“Here we go,” Princeton says, as they begin a lesson on such concepts as parallel lines and complementary angles in the quiet coziness of the family’s suburban home ...
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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
These primaries are red, green, and blue and it will be noted that they are the complementaries of the "subtractive" primaries.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh
The complementaries of red and violet are exceedingly trying to most complexions, and orange and orange-yellow are fatiguing to the eye.
From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Joseph Triemens
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
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