consummate
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“A consummate professional, he was an actor’s actor — humble, kind, and incredible at his craft.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 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
They described the mother as "intelligent, confident, a consummate professional" and praised her devotion to her family.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 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
Mad-Eye dead; it could not be....Mad-Eye, so tough, so brave, the consummate survivor...
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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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 rather sensuous nature that, in the fulfilment of moral duties, is found in a state of oppression and constraint, particularly when it consummates in a painful sacrifice.
From Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller
Having once attained ideas, we have reached God himself, in whom they have their foundation, who finishes and consummates true knowledge.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
That said, there was never much doubt that the deal would be consummated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
It also promised a $7 billion breakup fee to Warner Bros. if its merger wasn’t approved, and $7 million a day if it wasn’t consummated by the end of this month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
A federal judge has blocked Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2-billion acquisition of its rival, upending the already consummated union of the nation’s two largest television station groups.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
White House National Security Council deputy adviser, Jonathan Finer, said on CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday that "we worked to try to get Marc included in the deal that consummated last week".
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2024
Alexander's hoped-for "marriage of Europe and Asia" was consummated at last in the field of religion itself.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
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
Instead of consummating the transaction, though, the girl collapses on the bed, exhausted from caring for her siblings and working at a button factory.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 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
It was not till very lately since this canon of wedding and consummating and blessing by a holy friar hath been derided and contemned in this realm.
From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford
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