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
Crackers, nuts, jams, honey, fruit, and bread are ideal accompaniments.
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Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2025
In my experience, the cheese course comes first in the U.S. and is more of grazing board with charcuterie and fun accompaniments.
—Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Over the pearly accompaniment of a ukulele, the song rang out sunny and sweet.
—Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
And there was no music accompaniment to those shows.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
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Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2025
In my experience, the cheese course comes first in the U.S. and is more of grazing board with charcuterie and fun accompaniments.
—Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Over the pearly accompaniment of a ukulele, the song rang out sunny and sweet.
—Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
And there was no music accompaniment to those shows.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for accompaniment
Noun
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Think of it as the perfect complement to a facelift—an ideal annual tune-up to help maintain a refreshed, youthful look.—
Meggen Harris,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Blackmon, who would be an ideal complement to Tre’von Moehrig, has been in and out of the Colts’ lineup for years with consistent injury woes.—
Mike Kaye,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Apr. 2025
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The cougars were paired as companions for their similar personalities and age, officials said.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Sacbee.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Martin and a companion on April 27, 2023, entered the Washington, DC, museum and smeared washable red and black paint on the case protecting Edgar Degas’s 1881 Little Dancer Aged Fourteen in an effort to bring attention to the climate crisis.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
9 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
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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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The attendant was not warm or gentle, but her assertive touch felt motherly, even sensible.—
Anna Haines,
Vogue,
9 Apr. 2025
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Businesses can quickly hire them part-time to help with a sudden increase in demand without needing all the paperwork, benefits and expenses attendant with a full-time employee.—
Jack Kelly,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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None of the country’s three top circuits have issued any warnings, and one top exhibitor says the vast majority of its showings have been without a major incident.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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The incident was later deemed a swatting call, a when a fake 911 report is made in order to activate police response.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
10 Apr. 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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External forces may have torn them apart as the two witches grapple with the consequences of their choices.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2025
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Pegged to each recent IOC session has been a decision of major consequence for the Olympic movement.—
Blythe Lawrence,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Accompaniment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accompaniment. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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