consummate

• “He was known as a consummate and extraordinarily discreet bureaucrat, but before the Bay of Pigs fiasco he had done little for the new administration and had no real sense of what his fate would be in the new regime.”

  Simon & Schuster: In the Shadow of the Oval Office

• “It should be noted that Keiji Fukuda of WHO is a close associate of Nancy Cox of the misnamed CDC who has developed a maximally virulent H5N1 Reassortment Bioweapon described in consummate detail in the March 23, 2005 Wall Street Journal.”

  Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer

• “Throughout his career, Bob was known as a consummate technician, a great heel, and the source of a subtle in-ring sense of humor that was often lost on the masses.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Hardcore Diaries

• “Laurence, a former IT worker from Essex, says passing his test was due to the support of his driving instructor, whom he describes as a consummate professional who willed him on despite their mutual frustration.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “That's why Jones is often referred to as the consummate team player.”

  Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines

• “Taylor Bean leader Lee Farkas , whom federal prosecutors described as a "consummate fraudster," was found guilty of misappropriating about $3 billion and trying to fraudulently obtain more than $550 million from the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program in a failed effort to prop up Colonial.”

  The Wall Street Journal: BofA Defends $1.75 Billion Claim Over Colonial Bank Deals

• “Slender and stylish, the 66-year-old conductor is best known as a consummate communicator about classical music, most notably in his "Keeping Score" national television series for PBS.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Centenarian Fit as a Fiddle

• “By the markedly downsized standard in the past two decades of what passes for liberal positions on issues, Pelosi can be called the consummate liberal.”

  Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Pelosi Has Back Pedaled Just as Fast as Obama

• “The testimony in the trial, which is heading for final arguments as early as Tuesday, calls into question whether Mr. Cheney, known as a consummate inside player, operated as effectively as his reputation would hold.”

  Backstage at the White House

• “COOPER: When Scott McClellan was White House press secretary, he was known as the consummate loyal team player.”

  CNN Transcript May 29, 2008

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