consummating

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Neither side, fresh off rekindling their flame and consummating a marriage forged in the fires of mutual arrogance, could have foreseen the turbulence to come.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2023

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

"The parties are still in the process of formalising, executing, and consummating" the deal, said Fox and Strange's lawyers in a filing at Los Angeles federal court on Friday.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2023

Thus, happy, then, by the heart, happy by the senses, it was beyond all power, even of thought, to form the conception of a greater delight than what I now am consummating the fruition of.

From Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by Cleland, John