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consummate

[kon-suh-mayt, kuhn-suhm-it, kon-suh-mit] / ˈkɒn səˌmeɪt, kənˈsʌm ɪt, ˈkɒn sə mɪt /




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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

Northants knocked off the target of 153 with consummate ease.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

My husband, consummate family man, was born to be a grandfather.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Castlelake would agree to a “‘best endeavors’ commitment in any cooperation agreement to obtain any regulatory clearances and approvals required to consummate the transaction,” it added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

But Hodges quickly proved to be a consummate politician of the Southern progressive type, using words like “compromise” and “understanding” while adroitly undermining any real change in the status quo.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

Feudalism can be compared to a nut-shell, which protects the kernel till it quietly consummates its maturing process within.

From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Katsuro Hara

For art is like a flower, which consummates the plant and ends its growth, while it translates its nature into loveliness.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds

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

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 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

But that deal was never consummated and Triller experienced its own legal issues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

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

From their earliest appearance, however, the chronicle plays offered opportunities for developments later consummated by Shakespeare.

From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike

Discovery are “temporarily enjoined and restrained from closing or consummating the transaction or taking any steps, directly or indirectly, to integrate or consolidate their operations pursuant to the transaction.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

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

A pledge that I would join you to set about eradicating those apparently inevitable evils of our nature, in equalizing the condition of all mankind, consummating the perfection of our race, and introducing the millennium?

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott




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