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consummate

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




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Northants knocked off the target of 153 with consummate ease.

From BBC Jul. 17, 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

In high school he’d been the consummate all-around athlete—a star in football, basketball, and track—and an honor student.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

The new creation, as we call it, restores and consummates the old.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

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 Hara, Katsuro

"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

But before the transaction can be consummated, the deal must overcome regulatory scrutiny.

From New York Times Feb. 20, 2024

He summons Madonna to his hospital bed, and a record contract is consummated.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 5, 2023

But, in her case, the marriage was not consummated until many years later, at Al-Madinah, after the Hegira.

From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Dinet, Etienne

Neither side, fresh off rekindling their flame and consummating a marriage forged in the fires of mutual arrogance, could have foreseen the turbulence to come.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2023

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 attorneys had argued Twitter was heavily reliant on Slack in consummating the deal, with multiple channels that hosted discussions about the merger.

From Washington Post Sep. 7, 2022

He singled out “My Night at Maud’s,” a 1969 classic in which a man and a woman have a lengthy conversation about love, religion and other existential themes without ultimately consummating their romantic tension.

From New York Times Apr. 20, 2022

Oh! why had I not used some deliberation before thus consummating the desperate deed?

From Confessions of a Neurasthenic by Marrs, William Taylor




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