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consummate

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




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Making his debut as Ms. Nadon’s partner in “Emeralds,” Gilbert Bolden III supported her with consummate strength and ease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

A consummate insider, Winer had parlayed six years as chief of staff to Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii into a lucrative lobbying career with a firm called Strategies 360.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

And in a shift in strategy, veterans Jordan Henderson and Danny Welbeck were brought in to add experience and their consummate professionalism to the Chelsea dressing room.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 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

Neither yours nor any man’s death is needed to consummate the series of my being and accomplish that which must be done, but it requires my own.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

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

Having once attained ideas, we have reached God himself, in whom they have their foundation, who finishes and consummates true knowledge.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

The duke's death, the check thereby administered to his insane vanity, had dealt the last blow; for disaster, which often brings together hearts that are ripe for a mutual understanding, consummates and completes disunion.

From The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Burnham Ives

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

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 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

But that deal was never consummated and Triller experienced its own legal issues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

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

The law courts remained open, and ignored the want of stamps on legal documents, and marriages were consummated simply after putting up the banns, and not by stamped certificate.

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

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 L. Carroll Judson


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