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Their projected 2023 payroll is $385 million with a completive balance tax bill of $113 million, according to Spotrac.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2022

“The only real way for us to make that a more completive game is for us to shoot it a lot better than we did,” Alexander said.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2011

But the flesh of Christ would seem to have been conceived before being united to the rational soul, because matter or disposition is prior to the completive form in order of generation.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Hence it is a material part, so to speak, thereof, and a necessary condition of the formal and completive part.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Therefore something external can be a cause moving to sin, but not so as to be a sufficient cause thereof: and the will alone is the sufficient completive cause of sin being accomplished.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint