supplementary to
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The head of Operation Kenova, Sir Iain Livingstone, said the 16 people investigated were "supplementary" to the operation's main focus of investigating Stakeknife.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2023
If I’m feeling this way, this energy is up in the air, I can write songs, and that’s really important, but this project was almost supplementary to the songs.
From The Verge ● Aug. 29, 2016
That means 10 more years before a system — once imagined to be only supplementary to Social Security and pension plans — is fully tested.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2012
When professional artists use watercolour, so the grand narrative goes, it is to make preliminary sketches, try-outs, what-ifs that are supplementary to the real business of art, which involves in oils.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2011
These exercises are not to be considered a substitute for vigorous outdoor work or play, but only as supplementary to or when these are impossible.
From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
