consummation

Strangely, it tells the history of the earth in reverse, beginning in the present, so humanity isn’t the consummation of evolution, but instead casts its shadow backward.

If you can think of another government service that can perform its task in two weeks from application to consummation, let me know.

Or any of the intimate details of the consummation of his lurid act.

More than half of states still have marriage consummation laws that require sex to in some way prove the authenticity of a partnership.

This spring saw the consummation of both, with the book out from the University of Chicago Press in April, and the album out on June 2 on the Pentatone label.