CONSUMMATED Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

consummated

verb

past tense of consummate

as in completed

to bring (something) to a state where nothing remains to be done willing to do whatever it takes to consummate a business deal

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Recent Examples of consummated Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated. —

Sarah Dean, NBC news, 7 Apr. 2026 Sources say the Post-Gazette's management met with the paper's department heads last week, telling them that robust talks to sell the paper are in the works and there's hope a sale might be consummated before the closure date. —

Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026 Although layoffs are a near certainty after the deal is consummated, layoffs were a near certainty without a deal because each company individually lacked staying power in a rapidly changing media landscape. —

David Goldman, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026 In Lily King’s Writers & Lovers, the heroine, a writer named Casey, balances her struggle to complete a novel with a string of relationships that King writes with heat and specificity until they get consummated. —

Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2026 The sale now appears to have been consummated. —

Lautaro Grinspan, AJC.com, 9 Feb. 2026 Now, the politicians want to see some language that will commit the corporate leaders if either merger is consummated. —

Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 6 Feb. 2026 There were 28 trades consummated in the week leading to Thursday’s deadline. —

Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Feb. 2026 Garland was comfortable in Cleveland generally, but his representatives blessed the trade to the Clippers ahead of the deal being consummated. —

Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026

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Phoenix bounced back to cut the deficit to 65-62 at the break after Green completed a four-point play — hitting a 3 while being fouled — with one second remaining.

— David Brandt, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
The book was completed months before Anthropic’s redlines generated new interest in autonomous-drone swarms and killer robots, but even then the writing was on the wall.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026