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complementary

[kom-pluh-men-tuh-ree, -tree] / ˌkɒm pləˈmɛn tə ri, -tri /


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Ukrainians also use Delta and complementary applications to improve situational awareness and protect their own troops.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Public transit networks and shared autonomous vehicles are part of a complementary mobility ecosystem,” Waymo said in its announcement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

Krystal went on mimicking the one-two-three count, Deja chiming in with the perfect amount of complementary snark, Brit-Brat laughing at them both.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds

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

We have already shown how the complementaries of the spectrum colours can be found; the question is can we find the complementaries of pigments by the spectrum?

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by W. de W. Abney

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

There are pairs of so-called complementaries which make a very crude, harsh, even painful impression.

From The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Dench Puffer Howes




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