complementary

While the two businesses had complementary assets, Uniphase prohibitively overpaid for JDS Fitel, financing the deal with its own pricey stock before going on to make other expensive acquisitions in the same manner.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

The report found complementary therapy sessions rose from 405 in 2021 to a record 965 in 2025, representing an increase of 138%.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Ansari stresses that, as with any supplement, creatine should be complementary to diet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

"Every method has its advantages and disadvantages, and we believe in a complementary implementation in the future," Kueppers said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 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

These primaries are red, green, and blue and it will be noted that they are the complementaries of the "subtractive" primaries.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh

The answer is that the union is one of complementaries, and not of antitheses.

From Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex by Alexander J. (Alexander James) McIvor-Tyndall

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