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
Something Beautiful, a visual album with a musical film accompaniment.
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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
On the train to MetLife Stadium, the Palmeiras fans, encouraged to chant by the NJ Transit driver on an intercom, provided a raucous accompaniment from Manhattan to New Jersey.
—Adam Crafton, New York Times, 15 June 2025
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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
On the train to MetLife Stadium, the Palmeiras fans, encouraged to chant by the NJ Transit driver on an intercom, provided a raucous accompaniment from Manhattan to New Jersey.
—Adam Crafton, New York Times, 15 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for accompaniment
Noun
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Apple and caramel are the perfect complement to graham cracker's warm, nutty flavors.—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
17 July 2025
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Its complement, formerly the home of tycoon and philanthropist Chung Keng Quee and now the Pinang Peranakan Mansion, was painted the precise food-coloring green of Malaysian pandan cake.—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
16 July 2025
Noun
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Eckhardt’s Senate companion bill was referred to the Finance Committee but has not yet received a hearing.—
Alex Driggars,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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Was the genesis of WWE: Unreal sort of a Netflix demand as a companion program to Raw?—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
29 July 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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No one witnessed the abduction but authorities became concerned when customers at the gas station reported that there was no attendant.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
11 July 2025
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Krypto excitedly tackles her to the ground, as Clark explains to one of his android attendants that Kara, who recently turned 21, is a party girl.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Vulture,
11 July 2025
Noun
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In that incident, a 21-year-old man was found shot in the stomach.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
28 July 2025
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Swan and the two other men were arrested in connection with the shooting incident on Dickson Street.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 July 2025
Noun
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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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The corollary of all these events is that Nyaan ends up with Kycilia, by way of Olivier, and Machu with Challia.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
Noun
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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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Already, consequences are reverberating through rural and urban communities as Trump’s Cabinet dismantles decades of progress, damages the futures of our children and hurts America’s economy, leaving a trail of destruction for future generations to clean up.—
Juliana Stratton,
Chicago Tribune,
31 July 2025
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This prevents travel to the United States and serves as a tangible consequence for non-compliance.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 July 2025
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“Accompaniment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accompaniment. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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