consummate
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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
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
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
Christa Miller, who plays consummate mother and opinionated neighbor Liz on “Shrinking,” has one piece of advice for parental dressing: Step away from the athleisure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Even Butler, the consummate professional, was beginning to dread the long nights of dampness and insect bites.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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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
What an ominous minute is that in which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment of a sentient being!
From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
It consummates all other qualities, but does not consume them.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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 before the transaction can be consummated, the deal must overcome regulatory scrutiny.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
He summons Madonna to his hospital bed, and a record contract is consummated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
Her apostacy, though consummated by degrees, may be said to have become at last complete.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by
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
Two years later, they completed a torrid offseason at the league meeting by consummating the signing of defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh — and kicking the tires on trading for star receiver Odell Beckham Jr.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
According to multiple reports, the Mavericks consulted Doncic before consummating the Irving trade.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2023
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
Disease was fast consummating the work of death and consuming the iron constitution and athletic frame that had enabled him to perform his duty so nobly during the toils of the Revolution.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll
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