complementary

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

Other incentives locations offer potential new residents are complementary cinema tickets, restaurant vouchers, and even free bottles of wine.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Two complementary bills approved Monday ensure homes that survive a wildfire but are contaminated by the onslaught of smoke are properly remediated before residents move back in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

We suspected that we had not made this error, but our judgment conceivably might be biased by the biological advantages of complementary DNA molecules.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

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

The effect of complementaries in color contrast is what you must study for this, for the theory of it.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst

In a similar way, light and dark tints act as complementaries.

From The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by William Henry Pyle