as in complement
something that is found along with something else
the sound of crickets was the perfect accompaniment to our summer evenings on the porch
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Recent Examples of accompaniment
Their piano accompaniment will be provided by Veronika Agranov-Dafoe.
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Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 26 June 2025
Something Beautiful, a visual album with a musical film accompaniment.
—Brendan Le, People.com, 18 June 2025
The 22-year-old Spanish singer-songwriter boasts an ethereal, ductile voice that sounds equally convincing singing solo with flamenco guitar accompaniment or over dance beats.
—Leila Cobo, Billboard, 18 July 2025
The eight-track album features the accompaniment of a symphony-style orchestra, gospel choir and swampy, rock-style instrumentation.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for accompaniment
Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 26 June 2025
Something Beautiful, a visual album with a musical film accompaniment.
—Brendan Le, People.com, 18 June 2025
The 22-year-old Spanish singer-songwriter boasts an ethereal, ductile voice that sounds equally convincing singing solo with flamenco guitar accompaniment or over dance beats.
—Leila Cobo, Billboard, 18 July 2025
The eight-track album features the accompaniment of a symphony-style orchestra, gospel choir and swampy, rock-style instrumentation.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for accompaniment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accompaniment
Noun
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That cognitive revolution was driven by genetic changes, by selecting for individuals who had the right complement of genes for higher cognition.—
Madeleine Beekman
August 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Aug. 2025
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The RiNo Made program is also a complement to the art district’s NO VACANCY program, which is another artist residency program that gives artists access to older buildings typically slated for demolition or adaptive reuse.—
Jessica Alvarado Gamez,
Denver Post,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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But the newest generation of AI assistants, meant to be interactive companions and co-pilots for drivers, present an entirely different level of collaboration between car and driver.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
7 Aug. 2025
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The companion set 1962–1966 also makes gains, though its rise comes on just one list.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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The hope, for many in Vietnam, is that the war and all its concomitant struggles will fade into the oblivion of prosperity.—
Damien Cave,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Early capitalism and its disciplinary concomitant, the then-nascent field of political economy, understood workers not as people, with a craving for vastness, but as animals, who aspire to nothing more ornate than subsistence.—
Becca Rothfeld,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Mar. 2024
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The attendant gave us vouchers for complimentary drinks at the lobby bar.—
John Vorwald,
Robb Report,
4 Aug. 2025
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One of those workers, Trump said, was Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein accuser who said she was recruited by his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, when Giuffre was an underage teenager working as a locker-room attendant at Mar-a-Lago in 2000.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
30 July 2025
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Kolby was critically injured in the incident and taken to UCI Medical Center.—
Skyler Caruso,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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According to the 2025 Breach Barometer, healthcare data breaches broke records in 2024 with 1,160 incidents affecting patient and healthcare organization data alike.—
Arun Shrestha,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Marq’s State of Brand Consistency reports offer a validating corollary, noting how brand consistency across channels can lift revenue by almost a third.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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Another corollary was that the greatest danger to the nation lay farther away.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
11 July 2025
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There is a lovely horn obbligato to Sifare’s Act 3 aria which would be challenging to play on a modern instrument.—
Christian Hertzog,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 July 2023
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As an obbligato of protest continued behind Wilson, Dylan, accepting Wilson’s advice, sang the insert.—
Mick Stevens,
The New Yorker,
12 Aug. 2021
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The consequences are easy to spot: • Technology is being deployed faster than teams can adapt.—
Erik Greenstein,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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These consequences, Singer believes, include deterring certain organizations and future city councils from wanting to do business with one another.—
Abigail Hasebroock,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Accompaniment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accompaniment. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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