consummation
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“The situation creates noise and a near term floor under eBay shares at a premium to pre-bid levels, but we view the probability of deal consummation in its current form as very low,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
“The fact,” it said, “that an unforeseeable accident prevented the prompt consummation of the sentence cannot, it seems to us, add an element of cruelty to a subsequent execution.”
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2025
If you can think of another government service that can perform its task in two weeks from application to consummation, let me know.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025
Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Vocabulary lists containing consummation
Frankenstein
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy
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