complementary
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“It’s a way for them to to show a willingness to integrate within cities and to be more complementary rather than replacing,” Cornet said.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
The complementary skills of the new foursome have similarities to the legendary seamers of 21 years ago: Stephen Harmison, Matthew Hoggard, Simon Jones and Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
The team combined those measurements with a complementary study based on seismic recordings collected offshore from Vancouver Island to northern California in 2021.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
They made a perfectly complementary pair, Thorne a skillful salesman who hawked the securities transactions contrived by the introverted Alfred.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
Greenish-yellow and blue are a pair of complementaries, as already mentioned.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
Harmony in colour may be said to consist—apart from the general acknowledgment of the law of complementaries, in giving quality to the raw pigments by gradation, by a certain admixture or infusion of other colours.
From Line and Form (1900) by Walter Crane
The complementaries of red and violet are exceedingly trying to most complexions, and orange and orange-yellow are fatiguing to the eye.
From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Joseph Triemens
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