consummate

It’s the kind of no-holds-barred book only a consummate insider would know to write—but only one who is also conveniently outside the American university system could get away with writing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Neill was a consummate character actor, hard-working and driven by a love for his craft, with a filmography spanning decades and roles that touched countless lives.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Luke’s piece tells the story of Mike Love, 85, the last remaining member of one of the 20th century’s consummate pop acts, while also reflecting on nostalgia, bitterness, legacy, and mortality.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

Christa Miller, who plays consummate mother and opinionated neighbor Liz on “Shrinking,” has one piece of advice for parental dressing: Step away from the athleisure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

He had a keen mind, and a consummate poker face.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Yet the secret genius of "Your Love" is that the song never directly spells out whether the narrator consummates his crush in real life; we only get one side of the story.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2023

With “Part II,” Hogg consummates a sweeping, inward-looking masterwork, one that reexamines and in certain cases amends reality, the likes of which few filmmakers reach in their careers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2022

Most times, the ritual is all sound and fury and consummates its purpose without any actual violence.

From Newsweek ● Sep. 9, 2013

It is this union, which consummates the aspirations of humanity, that Shelley celebrates in the marvellous love-song of Prometheus.

From Mysticism in English Literature by Caroline F. E. Spurgeon

This day, according to our information, gives a husband to your elder sister, and consummates, it is to be presumed, her fondest desires.

From Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

The framework for a deal was consummated in a matter of days, Iger told interviewers last week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

"This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America, and all Nato Nations," he wrote.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

In an age when every middle-class household could afford a few hearth gods, the superior collector consummated his passion for beauty against the “prevailing winds of progress, fashion, democracy, money, and modernity.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

If it’s consummated, the deal would reverse Boeing’s largest outsourcing move after nearly 20 years, allowing the aerospace giant to tighten oversight of its most important parts provider.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

But not only so; after the Norman change is consummated, and our language has fairly assimilated that tributary stock of words and ideas and influences; the poetic advance, the development of verse, goes steadily on.

From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier

If the universal acclaim of “Oklahoma!” will force Hart to confront his professional irrelevance, maybe Elizabeth’s beaming presence — and the promise of them consummating their feelings — will be sufficient compensation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025

The agency asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals late on Thursday to require the companies to delay consummating the transaction while the court considered the FTC's broader appeal.

From Reuters ● Jul. 14, 2023

"The parties are still in the process of formalising, executing, and consummating" the deal, said Fox and Strange's lawyers in a filing at Los Angeles federal court on Friday.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2023

According to multiple reports, the Mavericks consulted Doncic before consummating the Irving trade.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2023

Oh, for some cup of consummating might, Filled with life's kind conclusion, lost in night!

From The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy by Madison Julius Cawein