complementary

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

"If people understand why these species should be preserved, then our enforcement will only be complementary to those who decide to be recalcitrant."

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Teledyne Chief Executive Robert Mehrabian said the companies serve similar customers with related technologies, though its products are uniquely complementary with minimal overlap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

The company has begun weighing a complementary offering that could be built around advertising sales.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Mrs. Olinski gave one of her good answers: her "complementary skills" response, dressing it up to say that the team's talents blended like a chorus, making one sound out of many voices.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

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

We have already shown how the complementaries of the spectrum colours can be found; the question is can we find the complementaries of pigments by the spectrum?

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by W. de W. Abney

Harmony in colour may be said to consist—apart from the general acknowledgment of the law of complementaries, in giving quality to the raw pigments by gradation, by a certain admixture or infusion of other colours.

From Line and Form (1900) by Walter Crane