How to Use complementarity in a Sentence

complementarity

noun

• The world needs us to value women and men and their complementarity.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 14 June 2021
• Niels Bohr was very fond of the notion of complementarity.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2017
• The complementarity of scale between the shows is, of course, founded on opposition: small and big.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• In 2004, the paradox seemed to be resolved when physicists proposed the notion of black hole complementarity.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2018
• Bousso thought complementarity would come to the rescue yet again to resolve the firewall paradox.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 21 Dec. 2012
• As with wine/food pairings—both contrast and complementarity can work well when pairing wine types with season.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• This is the heart of complementarity, as Niels Bohr formulated it.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Apr. 2016
• The Firewall Maldacena’s duality and black hole complementarity seemed to dispel all the paradoxes, but many of the details had yet to be filled in.
  — Joseph Polchinski, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2015
• The two have been married for fifty years, and their complementarity was instantly legible.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• If the process includes compensation, but ignores complementarity and consultation, the effort may fail to truly answer for the past.
  — Kerry Whigham, The Conversation, 6 July 2021
• In a very real sense, the implication of complementarity is that things outside our horizon aren’t actually real — all that exists, from our point of view, are degrees of freedom inside the horizon, and on the horizon itself.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2011
• Their principle of black hole complementarity requires that different observers see the same bit of information in different places.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2012
• The challenge for the EU and African actors finding the win-win formula for cooperation, economic complementarity, and symbiosis.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• Our visions are closely aligned and mutually reinforcing, and the design of the experience draws out this complementarity.
  — Ashoka, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• Looking deeper into the numbers for an explanation, Jops and O’Dwyer found that a complex term called effective population size seemed useful for describing a kind of complementarity that could exist among species.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2023
• Within the Avedon show, there’s a further complementarity, also based on opposition.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• The talk was all about complementarities, synergies, and economies of scale... The reality quickly turned out to be one of incompatible product designs, operating systems, sales forces, brand images, and corporate cultures.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2019
• Translating his message into the current debate, technology should focus on the complementarity game, not the imitation game.
  — Wired Ideas, Wired, 8 Nov. 2021
• This phenomenon, which goes by the technical term pollination complementarity, isn’t unique to cotton.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2021
• The director also expresses this complicity, this complementarity, through his choice of anamorphic scope.
  — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 9 July 2022
• Investors will often look to assess compatibility and complementarity within the team, as well as enquire about your history of working together.
  — Miruna Girtu, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• These loops are called complementarity-determining regions, or CDRs.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 July 2017
• But if male and female are not normatively complementary and generatively significant, babies need not come from male and female complementarity.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2011
• So addressing all of their legacies successfully requires many different policy initiatives working hand in hand, or complementarity.
  — Kerry Whigham, The Conversation, 6 July 2021
• Explaining the rationale behind the deal, the companies said that the enlarged company would offer an unparalleled consumer experience, enjoy complementarity and growth opportunities and revenue and cost synergies.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 27 Mar. 2022
• Innovative approaches that combine indicators from these different kinds of data can demonstrate their consistency and complementarity, exploit the advantages of each and produce novel insights.
  — Deepali Khanna, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2022
• And Ariel’s immersion in popular song, counterbalanced by Caliban’s African drumming and chanting, invokes the complementarity and tension between authentic and refracted diaspora cultures.
  — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2019
• One of those that experimented with the complementarity principle was American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler.
  — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2022
• Romantic love requires complementarity—that is, differences.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024