Previous studies of endosymbiosis have shown that there can be complementary gene losses between hosts and endosymbionts, creating a metabolic interdependence.
How Two Became One: Origins of a Mysterious Symbiosis Found|Viviane Callier|September 9, 2020|Quanta Magazine
The algorithms behind social media giants are designed to funnel viewers through a vortex of complementary interests — basically, to keep feeding them content they like in order to maintain interest and engagement.
The American Fringes Go Mainstream|Nick Fouriezos|September 6, 2020|Ozy
In an increasingly complex and interdependent world, much more can be accomplished by working with partners who have different, yet complementary, skills.
COVID-19 has spurred rapid transformation in health care. Let’s make sure it stays that way|jakemeth|August 20, 2020|Fortune
Grocery advertisers should adopt an “always-on” strategy by cross-promoting products on both similar and complementary keywords.
How to prepare your e-commerce ad strategy for an uncertain Q4|Sponsored Content: Pacvue|August 17, 2020|Search Engine Land
To Eric von Hippel’s point about the complementary relationship between home innovators and firms, Dana Lewis and her co-inventors have licensed their algorithm to healthcare companies to use in their devices.
Honey, I Grew the Economy (Ep. 399)|Stephen J. Dubner|December 5, 2019|Freakonomics
To an extent, such ambitions are complementary, yet Liana is not interested in “extreme biography.”
A Novel About a Novelist ‘Like’ Naipaul|Edward Platt|November 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He added that “the method is not a better method, but complementary to other methods.”
It’s Official: Religion Doesn’t Make You More Moral|Elizabeth Picciuto|September 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If galaxy mapping is like doing a population map, the complementary study is like a demographic survey.
SAMI Is Like Google Earth for the Universe|Matthew R. Francis|July 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
According to Sig Gissler, who administered the awards, the two series of stories “were complementary.”
Guardian and WaPo Share Pulitzer: Snowden Hails Victory for “More Accountable Democracy”|David Freedlander|April 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Between them, the four of them being so complementary, they managed to appeal to almost everyone.
What It Was Like to Watch the Beatles Become the Beatles—Nik Cohn Remembers|Nik Cohn|February 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That knowledge is directly revealed while we are apprehending any finite object, as its correlative and complementary antithesis.
British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Volume LIV|Various
These two things are distinct in character, but they are complementary to each other.
The Rural Life Problem of the United States|Horace Curzon Plunkett
This is complementary to the preceding speech, of which it completes the metre.
The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays|Thomas Keightley
Colours are said to be complementary to each other which, by blending together, produce the perception of whiteness.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I|Arnold Cooley
It is a general maxim in design that colours look brightest when near their complementary colours.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I|Arnold Cooley
British Dictionary definitions for complementary
complementary
complemental
/ (ˌkɒmplɪˈmɛntərɪ, -trɪ) /
adjective
acting as or forming a complement; completing
forming a satisfactory or balanced whole
forming a mathematical complementsine and cosine are complementary functions
mathslogic(of a pair of sets, etc) mutually exclusive and exhaustive, each being the complement of the other
(of genes) producing an effect in association with other genes
involving or using the treatments and techniques of complementary medicine