Thesaurus results for ACCOMPANIMENT

accompaniment

noun

ə-ˈkəm-pə-nē-mənt

Definition of accompaniment

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 Both Richards and Ronnie Wood are locked in and the A-list guest stars from Paul McCartney to Robert Smith add tasteful accompaniment without overshadowing the band. — David Harris, SPIN, 6 July 2026 And asked ourselves what are other things that feel like good accompaniments to a horror game? — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 30 June 2026 Then the other part of it was really kind of finished with Niwel’s beautiful harmonic accompaniment. — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 June 2026 The visual accompaniment to the president’s promise of national enjoyment showed two multistory stone arcades running down the length of the Mall—very classical, very retvrn—thronged with crowds. — Christopher Hooks, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for accompaniment

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Noun

Most investors cannot independently evaluate immunology, gene editing, RNA therapeutics, complement biology, oncology biomarkers, or statistical powering assumptions in clinical trials.

— Steve Brozak, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Quinn Hughes K'Andre Miller Sebastian Cossa That’s three forward lines (including a second line built from three trades that all involved the same pick), a full complement of defensemen and even a goalie.

— Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 21 July 2026

Definition of complement

Noun

Put your emotional—and financial—stock in the AI companion market, whose market size is projected to reach over $31 billion by 2032.

— Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026
If your four-legged companion treats every muddy ditch or stagnant puddle as a personal invitation, the hardware is built to handle it.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 July 2026

Definition of companion

Noun

Other tournaments have full-service coffee stations with an attendant, and some players said 3M’s offerings weren’t up to that quality.

— Anya Armentrout, Twin Cities, 25 July 2026
The horses, the Council was told, have stable attendants watching over them around the clock, and immediate access to a veterinarian 24 hours a day.

— Marianne Pizzitola, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026

Definition of attendant

Noun

The question users need to ask is whether the convenience concomitant with AI’s intelligence is worth the exchange of their intimate data.

— Harsh Verma, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
But concomitant with this were tensions around the concept of localism, an ethos with its roots in the conditions and convictions of the earliest settlers.

— JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025

Definition of concomitant

Noun

Federal legislative efforts, including the FRONTIER Act, are emerging, focusing on risk assessments and incident reporting.

— Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
But that conviction was dismissed after the revelation that a juror in the trial had not disclosed a domestic violence incident in her own background in order to win a seat on the panel, The Denver Post reports.

— Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of incident

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Princeton University professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor offered another corollary to the reparations debate, arguing in her book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation that reparations cannot be reduced to mere policy prescriptions.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
For national tournaments, the corollary is how poorer countries always have to match up against richer ones for regional face-offs and qualifiers that culminate in the quadrennial dream that is the World Cup.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026

Definition of corollary

Noun

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
As an obbligato of protest continued behind Wilson, Dylan, accepting Wilson’s advice, sang the insert.

— Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021

Definition of obbligato

Noun

Kohberger alleges that his attorneys withheld potentially exculpatory evidence, misled him about the consequences of pleading guilty and relied on threats and false promises to persuade him to accept the deal.

— Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026
Barring a major global intervention to curb climate change, European businesses can expect more record-breaking heat waves in the years ahead and, as a consequence, growing pressure for safe workspaces from regulators and workers alike.

— Oliver Balch, Fortune, 27 July 2026

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