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Some industrious protester had supplemented that official sign with an intricately sewn copycat banner that perfectly imitated both the hue and the font used by the highway bureau.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2014

They had supplemented his one-man rule with a 99-man City Council, which had cleaned up the city.

From Time Magazine Archive

General Ma had supplemented his cavalry brigade with a formidable army of Mongol and Chinese deserters from forces organized by Japanese in their "puppet" states.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before long he had supplemented Ruth Turner's Washing Talks with the more varied salesmanship of Sisters of the Skillet, Stoopnagle & Budd, and the B. A. Rolfe orchestra.

From Time Magazine Archive

The truth was that she had supplemented the Englishman’s poems with an idea of her own to give impressions gathered from her own life.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton