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
• As with wine/food pairings—both contrast and complementarity can work well when pairing wine types with season.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• 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
• Bousso thought complementarity would come to the rescue yet again to resolve the firewall paradox.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 21 Dec. 2012
• The two have been married for fifty years, and their complementarity was instantly legible.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• 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
• This is the heart of complementarity, as Niels Bohr formulated it.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Apr. 2016
• In 2004, the paradox seemed to be resolved when physicists proposed the notion of black hole complementarity.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2018
• The future belongs to those who embrace the complementarity of AI and NI.
  — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
• Once it is set on the right path with prosocial ambitions to guide it, AI may serve the common good – in complementarity with our natural assets.
  — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This dual focus—on values alignment and skills complementarity—yields stronger teams, better execution, and a more cohesive culture.
  — Melanie Hughes, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
• The answer for many of the questions that 2025 entails lies not in choosing one approach over another, but in combining the best of them all, and their complementarity.
  — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
• In an early duet, Aparna and Ashwini are models of sisterly complementarity.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Our visions are closely aligned and mutually reinforcing, and the design of the experience draws out this complementarity.
  — Ashoka, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• Within the Avedon show, there’s a further complementarity, also based on opposition.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• The researchers engineered human-AI complementarity into the design of the trials, and saw results.
  — David Autor, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025
• The blender, like the writer, is searching for complementarity, for the moment when diversity becomes unity, when differences become harmony.
  — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• 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
• Using a complementarity index, StatsCan found three strata of AI penetration so far in the country.
  — Dan Pontefract, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Translating his message into the current debate, technology should focus on the complementarity game, not the imitation game.
  — Wired Ideas, Wired, 8 Nov. 2021
• These loops are called complementarity-determining regions, or CDRs.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 July 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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