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

Or is it just the latest step toward some future, endlessly postponable consummation?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023

"Unwinding the merger after consummation is highly problematic and disfavored, making divestiture post-consummation significantly more difficult."

From Reuters • May 11, 2023

The consummation of these deals represented an important victory for private enterprise, he pointed out, since the armies of both countries were socialized institutions.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller