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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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

Northants knocked off the target of 153 with consummate ease.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Monge was a consummate geometer, specializing in three-dimensional geometry.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

Thus finding utterance as the prophet of God, he consummates his mission and takes his place in the world order.

From The Enjoyment of Art by Carleton Eldredge Noyes

The God who poured Himself forth into the world consummates His resurrection in the soul when that soul understands His creative word and echoes it.

From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Harry Collison

It also promised a $7 billion breakup fee to Warner Bros. if its merger wasn’t approved, and $7 million a day if it wasn’t consummated by the end of this month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The framework for a deal was consummated in a matter of days, Iger told interviewers last week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

"This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America, and all Nato Nations."

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

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

Finally the whole awkward device for getting the curse of Prometheus before the reader is consummated by raising up the phantasm of Jupiter which repeats the curse, word for word.

From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier

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

It is the concentration by the Union of interstate and international commerce in her great city, that was consummating its imperial destiny.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various