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The agency asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals late on Thursday to require the companies to delay consummating the transaction while the court considered the FTC's broader appeal.

From Reuters • Jul. 14, 2023

According to multiple reports, the Mavericks consulted Doncic before consummating the Irving trade.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2023

Is trauma preventing B and G from consummating their love, or has their youthful dependence cast them into sibling roles?

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2022

They have chopped and changed and dropped and recalled spinners, hopping from Jack Leach to Dom Bess to Moeen Ali, and flirting with Matt Parkinson without ever consummating the relationship.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2021

The letters, however, contained menaces against the deceased, and warnings against the marriage which she was on the point of consummating.

From The Oriental Story Book A Collection of Tales by Quackenbos, G. P. (George Payn)