complementary
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The company has begun weighing a complementary offering that could be built around advertising sales.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Throughout the day, fans crossed the grounds in bright Latin American soccer jerseys, the eye-catching complementary greens and reds of Mexico and the rich blue of El Salvador dotting the crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Bernstein analysts said in a separate note that the two companies had complementary portfolios in oncology and cardiovascular diseases, but that a deal seemed unlikely to go ahead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Each pathway filled a different combination of energy levels within zinc-70, allowing researchers to observe its nuclear structure from two complementary perspectives.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
If the complementary scheme was right, he might find attractive forces between bases with different structures.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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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
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 Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh
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 Howes, Ethel Dench Puffer
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
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