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
Multiple voices in one hand blended into fistfuls of color, and perplexing emphases on accompaniment figures served to distract, rather than elucidate, the musical argument.
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Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
The Embassy has at least five silent films with organ accompaniment planned for this year, including a spooky movie at Halloween.
—Heather Kathryn Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
All season performances take place at the Lyric Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Drive, with live accompaniment by the Lyric Opera Orchestra.
—Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
Artemis now sometimes provides musical accompaniment in the Crossroads.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
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Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
The Embassy has at least five silent films with organ accompaniment planned for this year, including a spooky movie at Halloween.
—Heather Kathryn Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
All season performances take place at the Lyric Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Drive, with live accompaniment by the Lyric Opera Orchestra.
—Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
Artemis now sometimes provides musical accompaniment in the Crossroads.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for accompaniment
Noun
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That the hosts ended the afternoon with a full complement of players will no doubt have vexed Stockport on their trip back across the border after James McClean was fortunate to see yellow rather than red for a crude first-half challenge on Hills.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
The Athletic,
23 Mar. 2025
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Its flight deck can support a complement of two Black Hawk or Seahawk helicopters.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
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Grok, named after the term coined by sci-fi author Robert A. Heinlein and modeled after the irreverent tone of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, is designed to be a companion, a guide — and, apparently, quite a bit of a troublemaker.—
Anisha Sircar,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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The health system also built a general AI companion, based on the Claude family of anthropic large language models, that is currently in its pilot phase with the intention of launching next quarter.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 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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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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Hamilton plays the role of a parking attendant, originally played by Richard Edon in the classic movie.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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Was there prosecutorial misconduct attendant to Nixon after investigations began?—
Teri Sforza,
Orange County Register,
12 Mar. 2025
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Some incidents may lead to prosecution on criminal charges.—
Isabel Rosales and Alexandra Skores,
CNN,
18 Mar. 2025
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The incident happened as Morgan is working on his untitled NBC comedy pilot from Tina Fey, Robert Carlock and Sam Means.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
18 Mar. 2025
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Most of all, the festival has embraced such upheaval as a necessary corollary of its programming; the most urgent headlines of the day have seldom been far from the festival’s screens, and Tuttle’s inaugural program proved no exception.—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
27 Feb. 2025
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One person with knowledge of the brewing deal brought up the David Blitzer situation as a possible corollary.—
Jon Greenberg,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 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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During community conversations with Latinas, the economic and health consequences of lacking health insurance were a common topic.—
Noreen Sugrue,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Research shows that narcissistic employees are more likely to behave unethically, potentially leading to legal consequences.—
Jonathan Gay,
The Conversation,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Accompaniment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accompaniment. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.
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