complementary
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In his short tenure as owner, the team said goodbye to LeBron James, gave Austin Reaves a long contract extension, traded for impact center Walker Kessler and signed several complementary players.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
"If people understand why these species should be preserved, then our enforcement will only be complementary to those who decide to be recalcitrant."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The company has begun weighing a complementary offering that could be built around advertising sales.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
There would be some rationale for a tie-up between AstraZeneca and BMS due to their complementary footprints in oncology and cardiovascular diseases, but a deal seems unlikely, according to Bernstein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
She’d gotten pretty fast at addition problems using the complementary numbers, but her fingers still didn’t fly like the fingers of the other kids.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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
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
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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