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consummate

[kon-suh-meyt, kuhn-suhm-it, kon-suh-mit] / ˈkɒn səˌmeɪt, kənˈsʌm ɪt, ˈkɒn sə mɪt /




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

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Northants knocked off the target of 153 with consummate ease.

From BBC 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

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

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

She spoke with her hands, entertaining her two youngest children with fluid movements of such consummate grace that it seemed as though light music should be filtering from somewhere in the dizzying late afternoon heat.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

The Passion music of Bach rises to the sublime understanding of this grand mystery, and again the evolution of the old mystery and Passion-play consummates in a kindred mind.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by John Rudd

In a Monday memo to employees, Ellison wrote that he still believes his mammoth merger will be consummated in the coming months.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

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

From BBC Jan. 21, 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

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

From Seattle Times Apr. 1, 2024

After that he turned his attention almost exclusively to the propulsion of vessels by steam, visiting England and France, but obtaining no pecuniary advantage from the experiments he proposed or consummated.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper

If the universal acclaim of “Oklahoma!” will force Hart to confront his professional irrelevance, maybe Elizabeth’s beaming presence — and the promise of them consummating their feelings — will be sufficient compensation.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 17, 2025

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

Instead of consummating the transaction, though, the girl collapses on the bed, exhausted from caring for her siblings and working at a button factory.

From New York Times Apr. 7, 2023

According to multiple reports, the Mavericks consulted Doncic before consummating the Irving trade.

From Washington Post Feb. 5, 2023

Even if it succeeded in actually disciplining all the forces of production, it would only do so while consummating the domination and the monopoly of capital.

From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel P. Orth




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