consummating

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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

Is trauma preventing B and G from consummating their love, or has their youthful dependence cast them into sibling roles?

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2022

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

They have chopped and changed and dropped and recalled spinners, hopping from Jack Leach to Dom Bess to Moeen Ali, and flirting with Matt Parkinson without ever consummating the relationship.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2021

For a whim of tristfulness, for the luxury of consummating the ineffable depression the house created in him, Michael prepared to glance at every one of the five rooms.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton