complementary
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“I believe that all great American cities are anchored by great universities and Carnegie Mellon will bring a great university here to Miami complementary to other universities here in the region,” Griffin said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
“It’s a way for them to to show a willingness to integrate within cities and to be more complementary rather than replacing,” Cornet said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Neutron and X-ray imaging provide researchers with complementary ways to see inside materials.
From Science Daily ● 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
But this did not bother us, for we only wished to establish that at least one specific two-chain complementary helix was stereochemically possible.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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
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
The effect of complementaries in color contrast is what you must study for this, for the theory of it.
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
Cosmic reaction has set in, and union between complementaries is the result.
From Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex by Alexander J. (Alexander James) McIvor-Tyndall
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