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complementary

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


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In fact, the books are better viewed as complementary rather than competitive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Anne Marie, a beauty and complementary therapist with her own successful business, was at a pub in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, with her cousins on the night of the incident.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

The neural network is trained using two complementary diffraction images, one captured with a vertical polarizer and one without.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

This coordinated approach reflects elected officials’ determination to address anticompetitive practices while also pursuing complementary housing policies.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Why were the two strands complementary to each other—A matched with T, and G matched with C—like a molecular yin and yang?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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