complementary
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In his short tenure as owner, the team said goodbye to LeBron James, gave Austin Reaves a long contract extension, traded for impact center Walker Kessler and signed several complementary players.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Together, the two companies said they would form the nation’s sixth-largest homebuilder, with highly complementary footprints, expanded product offerings and deeper capabilities across large and fast-growing housing markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
They also conducted complementary ex-situ experiments in Prague, which made it possible to observe the samples over longer periods.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Dr Yasir Ali, a reader in Transport Modelling at Loughborough University, says e-scooters are "complementary" to other modes of transport, rather than replacing them.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Cancer may sometimes require the complementary action of two chemicals, one of which sensitizes the cell or tissue so that it may later, under the action of another or promoting agent, develop true malignancy.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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
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
In a similar way, light and dark tints act as complementaries.
From The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by William Henry Pyle
These primaries are red, green, and blue and it will be noted that they are the complementaries of the "subtractive" primaries.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh
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