complementary

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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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

"The Hobby-Eberly is a pioneering telescope. And with new, complementary instruments coming online, we're entering a golden age for mapping the cosmos."

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

“The transaction is expected to generate significant shareholder value through the combination of two businesses with highly complementary capabilities,” Zurich said Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

As I wrote, for some reason or other, one image, symbol, character, scene, mood, feeling evoked its opposite, its parallel, its complementary, and its ironic counterpart.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright