complementary
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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
In light of the migraine-study results, Ipsen could look for complementary deals, using Dysport as an anchor product around which to build a franchise, Loew said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
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
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
The great difficulty lies in discovering the conditions governing these groups of numbers, the pairing of the complementaries in the squares of four and the formation of the diagonals.
From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
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