How to Use complementarity in a Sentence

complementarity

noun

• But in many places, under the gray sky, trees seemed mainly to demonstrate the complementarity of black and brown.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
• 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
• So, compliments to the chef, whoever that might be, who thought there’d be a certain complementarity that would work here.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 June 2024
• In 2004, the paradox seemed to be resolved when physicists proposed the notion of black hole complementarity.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2018
• At the core of quantum physics is the idea of complementarity, which describes how objects have conflicting properties that cannot be observed at the same time.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2023
• 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
• But hearing the character of their voices up-front is still bound to come as a revelation — maybe even to themselves, from the sound of it — after a couple of decades of complementarity.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Recommended For many climate campaigners and non-governmental organizations, renewables and coal are seen as simple substitutes, but officials have focused on their complementarity in the short to medium term.
  — John Kemp, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Economic complementarity also drove them together: Russia had an abundance of natural resources but needed technology and money, while China needed natural resources and had money to spare and technology to share.
  — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Mar 2025