complementary
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To track what happened during the reaction, the team combined two complementary X-ray methods.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Ukrainians also use Delta and complementary applications to improve situational awareness and protect their own troops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
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
Why were the two strands complementary to each other—A matched with T, and G matched with C—like a molecular yin and yang?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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 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
If this colour is deep, it gives rise to a luminous complementary, such as orange, or yellow, and enfeebles the black; while the other complementaries, such as violet or green, strengthen and purify it.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
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