complementary
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Throughout the day, fans crossed the grounds in bright Latin American soccer jerseys, the eye-catching complementary greens and reds of Mexico and the rich blue of El Salvador dotting the crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Bernstein analysts said in a separate note that the two companies had complementary portfolios in oncology and cardiovascular diseases, but that a deal seemed unlikely to go ahead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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
The researchers propose that the Mediterranean diet may protect the cardiovascular system in two complementary ways.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
At the bottom of the letter that broke the news of the complementary chains, I had asked that he not tell Linus.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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 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 Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh
If this colour is deep, it gives rise to a luminous complementary, such as orange, or yellow, and enfeebles the black; while the other complementaries, such as violet or green, strengthen and purify it.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
The great difficulty lies in discovering the conditions governing these groups of numbers, the pairing of the complementaries in the squares of four and the formation of the diagonals.
From Amusements in Mathematics by Dudeney, Henry Ernest
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