complementary
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The complementary skills of the new foursome have similarities to the legendary seamers of 21 years ago: Stephen Harmison, Matthew Hoggard, Simon Jones and Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
As AI becomes ubiquitous, any advantage to be gained will depend on the complementary assets around it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
It needs to answer the question: How can a team expect to be complimented if it can’t play complementary football?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The team combined those measurements with a complementary study based on seismic recordings collected offshore from Vancouver Island to northern California in 2021.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Vincent experiments with bright colors as well as complementary colors.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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
Everything in nature is manifested to us by means of light and its complementaries, reflection and shadow.
From The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art by Cicely Margaret Powell Binyon
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
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