consummation

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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

"Unwinding the merger after consummation is highly problematic and disfavored, making divestiture post-consummation significantly more difficult."

From Reuters • May 11, 2023

As its title makes clear, the movie also seeks to cast the Kraffts as well-matched leads in a most unusual love story, one that found its grandest consummation in jaw-dropping eruptions of lava and ash.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2022

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley