complementary
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“Each company will be better positioned to grow within a focused portfolio of complementary businesses.”
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
Then there are their complementary economies: Russia as a major exporter of oil, gas and other raw materials, and China's industrial economy providing a vast market for them.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
“Combining our two companies, with our highly complementary footprints and product strategies, would create the seventh-largest U.S. homebuilder,” said Dream Finders Chief Executive Patrick Zalupski.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
"Our findings suggest that coffee, whether caffeinated or decaffeinated, can influence health in distinct but complementary ways."
From Science Daily • May 3, 2026
Always pairing adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine meant that the base sequences of the two intertwined chains were complementary to each other.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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