consummation
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Strangely, it tells the history of the earth in reverse, beginning in the present, so humanity isn’t the consummation of evolution, but instead casts its shadow backward.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
“The fact,” it said, “that an unforeseeable accident prevented the prompt consummation of the sentence cannot, it seems to us, add an element of cruelty to a subsequent execution.”
From Slate • Aug. 8, 2025
If you can think of another government service that can perform its task in two weeks from application to consummation, let me know.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2025
This spring saw the consummation of both, with the book out from the University of Chicago Press in April, and the album out on June 2 on the Pentatone label.
From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2023
And all at once a great synthetic bass boomed out the words which announced the approaching atonement and final consummation of solidarity, the coming of the Twelve-in-One, the incarnation of the Greater Being.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Vocabulary lists containing consummation
Frankenstein
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy
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