complementary

“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

As AI becomes ubiquitous, any advantage to be gained will depend on the complementary assets around it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

A smaller number of geneticists, however, balked at complementary replication.

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

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

Everything in nature is manifested to us by means of light and its complementaries, reflection and shadow.

From The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art by Cicely Margaret Powell Binyon

But yellow and purple are not the only complementaries.

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