complementary
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Neutron and X-ray imaging provide researchers with complementary ways to see inside materials.
From Science Daily ● 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
The complementary skills of the new foursome have similarities to the legendary seamers of 21 years ago: Stephen Harmison, Matthew Hoggard, Simon Jones and Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
It needs to answer the question: How can a team expect to be complimented if it can’t play complementary football?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
They seemed to be complementary pieces making a whole, the way particle and wave manifestations together defined a photon.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
The answer is that the union is one of complementaries, and not of antitheses.
From Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex by Alexander J. (Alexander James) McIvor-Tyndall
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
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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