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- noun The state or quality of being
complementary ;complementarity .
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Examples
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His reference to quantum theory is apt, as there is a curious parallel between what's taking place on Twitter (and other similar platforms) and quantum entanglement, that bizarre and quasi-spiritual correlation between remote particles, a complementariness that defies our conception of time and space.
Peter Daou: The Philosophical Significance of Twitter: Consciousness Outfolding 2009
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In a sense each unique person might be viewed as a community of the beings with whom he has meaningfully related in struggle and/or complementariness.
Humanistic Nursing Josephine G. Paterson
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Thus, children see their early worlds through the complementariness and conflict of this initial home view, acting at times with it; at times against it.
Humanistic Nursing Josephine G. Paterson
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Civil unions are an empty pretense that lacks the fundamental sexual complementariness of male and female.
unknown title 2009
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Peter: But surely the complementariness of labor relations in the private sector makes for a different game, just as ... balbulican: It seems to me that the function of a union is the same, regardless of the sector: the protection of its ...
Progressive Bloggers 2009
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"It is a vehicle that promotes cooperation among three major emerging economies to exploit their complementariness to the utmost.
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In a world endangered by capitalism, a "new light of hope emerges from the people that never forget ... a form of life lived in complementariness and solidarity ... with Mother Earth
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In a world endangered by capitalism, a "new light of hope emerges from the people that never forget ... a form of life lived in complementariness and solidarity ... with Mother Earth
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In a world endangered by capitalism, a "new light of hope emerges from the people that never forget ... a form of life lived in complementariness and solidarity ... with Mother Earth
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nathaniel Loewentheil 2010
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In a world endangered by capitalism, a "new light of hope emerges from the people that never forget ... a form of life lived in complementariness and solidarity ... with Mother Earth
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