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Meanings of completing in English

Acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)

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Examples for "complementary"
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The SGS segment also provides complementary services in health and motor services.
Reuters
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As a result, complementary private pension provision has become an accepted necessity.
The Irish Times
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These complementary healthcare practitioners work for the London-based charity Ki Health International.
The Irish Times
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Prudential supervision and consumer protection were complementary, not conflicting, concerns, she said.
The Irish Times
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Those physical characteristics open new fields of clinical applications complementary to beta-RIT.
Pubmed
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The two expressions, song and action, were one; they were mutually complemental.
Chapters of Opera / Being historical and critical observations a...
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Perhaps they were really mated, their pettinesses and selfishnesses peculiarly complemental.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
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He blended the complemental conceptions of divinity and humanity.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature / Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought...
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Are we complemental to each other?
The Christian Home / As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Ch...
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I have done nothing which has interested me so much as Lythrum, since making out the complemental males of Cirripedes.
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
Usage of completing in English
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After completing his academic course work, Wes started on his professional training.
The other wes moore: one name, two fates
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However, the board is working toward completing several other less radical reforms.
Reuters
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However, fatigue prevented four subjects from group P from completing the trial.
Pubmed
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However, due to family difficulties she dropped school after completing the baccalaureate.
Reuters
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Seasonal workers from Samoa need support, especially in communication and completing documents.
Radio NZ
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The Iseq index fell 1 per cent yesterday, completing a lacklustre week.
The Irish Times
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Later this year, SpaceX will deliver the final 10, completing the constellation.
Wired
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Ibe agreed personal terms before completing a medical in England on Wednesday.
The Irish Times
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It will be responsible for completing cabin work on large A330 jetliners.
Reuters
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It's a recreation of the original series, completing the five year mission.
Wired
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The juvenile was freed after completing three years in a reform home.
Reuters
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Constitution, completing the, by the Assembly; acceptance of the, by the king.
The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
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WeChat, in other words, was more about consuming information than completing tasks.
Wired
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All living patients were followed at least 9 months after completing treatment.
Pubmed
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She felt incapable of even beginning a thought, let alone completing one.
The Fireman
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She stopped herself from completing the thought in case DuPris was listening.
The Stowaway
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