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

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

The letters, however, contained menaces against the deceased, and warnings against the marriage which she was on the point of consummating.

From The Oriental Story Book A Collection of Tales by Quackenbos, G. P. (George Payn)