consummate

It’s the kind of no-holds-barred book only a consummate insider would know to write—but only one who is also conveniently outside the American university system could get away with writing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

And in a shift in strategy, veterans Jordan Henderson and Danny Welbeck were brought in to add experience and their consummate professionalism to the Chelsea dressing room.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 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

There are, to be sure, stand-up comedians, shaggy- dog raconteurs, consummate essayists, and authors of mystery novels who can build up curiosity and suspense and then resolve it all with a sudden revelation.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

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

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

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

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

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

But scarcely was that invitation consummated till a still more comprehensive one, from the citizens of all the political parties, was given to me.

From Ex-President John Quincy Adams in Pittsburgh Address of Welcome, by Wilson McCandless, and Mr. Adams Reply; together with a letter from Mr. Adams Relative to Judge Brackenridge's "Modern Chivalry." by John Quincy Adams

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 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

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

While much can be done in molding and directing public opinion, the consummating force of legislation must be brought into play.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton