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
Pitchers of the winery's red and white wines made for the perfect accompaniment to wash down the meal.
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Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
There was also a live accompaniment—Chaplin’s own score for the movie, restored, adapted, and conducted by Timothy Brock, with the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Here, cocktails take center stage, along with a sushi counter that serves crudos, nigiri, maki and more, while DJs and percussionists provide musical accompaniment.
—Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
Long, curved hushpuppies and tangy red slaw are the classic accompaniments.
—Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
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Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
There was also a live accompaniment—Chaplin’s own score for the movie, restored, adapted, and conducted by Timothy Brock, with the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Here, cocktails take center stage, along with a sushi counter that serves crudos, nigiri, maki and more, while DJs and percussionists provide musical accompaniment.
—Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
Long, curved hushpuppies and tangy red slaw are the classic accompaniments.
—Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for accompaniment
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With thick buckle straps, multiple functional pockets, a wide-leg fit, and fun leopard print, this one-and-done outfit is the perfect complement to the neutral basics already in your wardrobe.—
Mia Huelsbeck,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
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The rookie point guard from Rutgers projects to be the perfect complement to this version of the Spurs’ franchise player and can grow alongside Wembanyama to maintain an ideal partnership.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Use the companion app to remotely adjust settings and even track your cat’s weight.—
Christine Persaud,
USA Today,
11 Oct. 2025
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District 3 Council Member Jennifer Gamble, who served as the council’s planning and zoning committee chair until only a few meetings ago when District 20 Council Member Rollin Horton took up the mantle, said the move was meant to align the bill with the same timing as its companions.—
Austin Hornbostel,
Nashville Tennessean,
10 Oct. 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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Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the concomitant rise in oil prices led to a 180-degree turn in Biden’s approach toward Riyadh.—
F. Gregory Gause III,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Aug. 2024
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Linda hustles the two of them to a nearby motel whose only employees are a surly young goth attendant (a glowering Ivy Wolk) and a sympathetic, mildly flirty super (A$AP Rocky, laidback and breezy).—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
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There, she is repeatedly scolded, first by a testy parking attendant (Mark Stolzenberg), and then by a doctor (Bronstein), who warns Linda of consequences if her daughter doesn’t soon reach her target weight of fifty pounds.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
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Members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad were then called to the scene and were able to successfully locate and detonate the incendiary devices without any further incident.—
Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
15 Oct. 2025
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Violent clashes have erupted between Hamas and rival groups in several areas across Gaza, including an incident that culminated in an apparent public execution, as worries grow about the security situation following Israel’s withdrawal from parts of the territory.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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And the corollary for the manager, lead with humility and grace and patience.—
Neil Senturia,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Sep. 2025
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And as a corollary to the latter, anything that governments provide in the form of spending or easier credit comes via a substitution of wafer-thin government knowledge for the immense knowledge that is the marketplace itself.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 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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Some of those involved in the group chat have already faced consequences, such Peter Giunta who was dismissed from his position as chief of staff to a New York assemblyman, and Bobby Walker who was dismissed from a New York congressional campaign.—
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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Keys confirmed the cardiovascular and metabolic changes recorded in Warsaw but also documented psychological consequences that had not been reported before.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Accompaniment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accompaniment. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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