complementary

“In our view, it has the potential to create meaningful value given Evonik’s complementary portfolio and relatively undemanding valuation,” the bank argues, noting the attractiveness of consolidation in Europe’s chemicals business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Neutron and X-ray imaging provide researchers with complementary ways to see inside materials.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

“Public transit networks and shared autonomous vehicles are part of a complementary mobility ecosystem,” Waymo said in its announcement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

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

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

The placing of complementaries so as to increase contrast is another way of adding to the brilliancy of light.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst

This symbolism is obvious when we take into our consciousness the truth that only complementaries have the power to act and react, without change, or loss.

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