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Recent Examples of consummation The physical consummation of love led to all of the things Elisabeth didn’t want: familial obligation, the opposite of liberation of the soul and body. Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2025 Each unit consists of one share of common stock and one right to receive one-tenth of a share of common stock upon the consummation of an initial business combination. Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 1 Apr. 2025 However, she may be most remembered for having crawled into Bond's bed naked in the hope of seducing him, which thankfully doesn't lead to any consummation given she's supposed to be 16 and Roger Moore's Bond was 53 at the time of the film's release. EW.com, 23 Mar. 2025 QAnon preached a day of consummation and vengeance called The Storm, a day in which all Democratic leaders would be slaughtered. Rebecca Solnit january 9, Literary Hub, 9 Jan. 2021 See All Example Sentences for consummation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for consummation
Noun
  • Maybe — just maybe — the Jets showed enough to believe that this sort of ending won’t happen as often anymore.
    Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • No easy fixes and no tidy endings here.
    The Know, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Still, what’s missing from the public discourse about violence in Chicago is the realization that suicide, and not homicide alone, is silently taking the lives of hundreds of Black residents across the city.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The realization that these parts would take hundreds of years to produce using conventional 3D printing methods became a turning point in DeMuth’s story.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At the conclusion of the state's case Wednesday, the defense moved to have the case dismissed, arguing the state had failed to prove its case.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Then, in the second half, a one-hour, two-minute lightning delay put a halt in the action, pushing the game’s conclusion past midnight on the East Coast.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Sleep Token Managed the Same Feat The accomplishment, which had never been achieved before November 2024, was repeated this past spring.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • For him, the clothes are an entry point to celebrating the lives and accomplishments of Black women, including Coretta Scott King, Diahann Carroll, and Mahalia Jackson, and Fredye Marshall and Dorothy Lee Bolden.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Those looking to get their steps in might ping pong between the Lake Stage, near Polk Bros Park at the Pier’s entrance point, and the East Stage, at the very end, practically in the lake.
    Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • At the end of every successful criminal prosecution, one question hangs over the heads of offenders, victims and attorneys.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Tres, his sexy, 16-seat counter-dining restaurant in a basement warehouse in Rotterdam, is the culmination of that boundless curiosity.
    Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The indictments are the culmination of a weeks-long investigation by the Texas Rangers, Johnson County judge Christopher Boedeker told WFAA.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This isn’t to diminish the achievements of other players, many of whom have done great things relative to their expectations this year.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Delivered to a high standard by Thales’s international team, in close collaboration with industry partners, this achievement showcases the quality, openness, and technical expertise that have defined Thales’s approach to the Type 31 delivery – earning praise from the Royal Navy.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The way this is structured almost mandates some sort of big episode 4 finale and cliffhanger to get people to return of the second half, where previously the entire point of the binge was the freedom to tell stories without restrictions like that.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Leaves sparkle on tree limbs like gemstones and flowering plants gear up for their season finale.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Consummation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consummation. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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