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She also observed that music is a potent form of communication in large part because the consummatory phase happens entirely in the listener’s head.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2023

The physical presence of a cookie or marshmallow seemed to allow what Mischel called its "hot" qualities--its yummy, consummatory immediacy--to overwhelm any cooling focus on doubled rewards in the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are some preparatory judgments, and some consummatory, some wither the leaf, and some blow it quite off, some make men like the harvest, ripe to put the sickle of judgment into it.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh