consummate

One early investor in his company described him as “a consummate networker.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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

My husband, consummate family man, was born to be a grandfather.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

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

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

This day, according to our information, gives a husband to your elder sister, and consummates, it is to be presumed, her fondest desires.

From Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

For virtue is a perfect habit, by which it never happens that anything but good is done: and so virtue must needs be in that power which consummates the good act.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

The framework for a deal was consummated in a matter of days, Iger said, although the sale needs to be approved by the NBA Board of Governors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 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

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

Then the mating is consummated, with the female laying eggs in a groove in a tree branch.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

Various offers, never consummated, were made for an exchange.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper

Discovery are “temporarily enjoined and restrained from closing or consummating the transaction or taking any steps, directly or indirectly, to integrate or consolidate their operations pursuant to the transaction.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

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

And by doing it we shall prove that our love, like hers, is a consummating love—a love that finds its consummation in obedience.

From Mater Christi Meditations on Our Lady by Mother St. Paul