companion piece

noun

: a work (as of literature) that is associated with and complements another

Examples of companion piece in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web At least the behind-the-scenes movie episode, helmed by Meirelles — the best-executed of the ambitious set pieces from Nguyen’s very cinematic novel — has a high volume of style, even if the overall approach and Downey’s presence make it into a darker, less hilarious Tropic Thunder companion piece. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024 Goth and West launched the X trilogy back in 2022 with the double-shot of X and its companion piece/prequel, Pearl. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024 Evermore, which arrived just months after Folklore as a companion piece, lands at No. 13 with 237,000 copies sold. Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024 Netflix’s Shirley is in so many ways a companion piece to the streaming platform’s recent Rustin that the two films could be entries in the same anthology series. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024 The movie musical is a tear-jerking and exultant epic that also works as a companion piece to the 1985 original. Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 25 Dec. 2023 The album serves as a companion piece to her 2002 album This Is Me… Then, which centered around her then-relationship with Affleck. Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 18 July 2023 Produced by Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, and Steven Spielberg, the series, which premieres on Apple TV+ on Jan. 26, is the companion piece to their previous World War II miniseries, Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2023 Killers of the Flower Moon is another instance of fatuous white guilt — a companion piece to the treacheries and condemnations of Spielberg’s West Side Story. Armond White, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1844, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of companion piece was in 1844

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“Companion piece.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/companion%20piece. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

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