complementary

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

It needs to answer the question: How can a team expect to be complimented if it can’t play complementary football?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 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

“There was no need for considering complementary security benefits.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

They read about the phenomenon of simultaneous contrast of colors, about complementary colors.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

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

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

We have already shown how the complementaries of the spectrum colours can be found; the question is can we find the complementaries of pigments by the spectrum?

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by W. de W. Abney