- present participle of moot.
mooting
Example Sentences
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The Italian lender made a $35 billion cash-and-share offer for MPS shortly after competitor Banco BPM said it was itself mooting a merger with the smaller bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
He has consistently offered to buy it off - an offer rejected by Denmark and Greenland - whilst mooting the possibility of seizing it by force.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
The parties eventually agreed on questioning behind closed doors and release of a public transcript, mooting the case.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2019
Conveniently, Spode and Wooster travel in the same Wodehouse-world circles — London clubs, the Ritz, Quaglino’s, the theater, Savile Row tailors and weekend country house parties — mooting the impingement question.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2018
While the English envoy was mooting the question of divorce in 1526 the surprise of Rome by an Imperial force brought home to Clement his utter helplessness.
From History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by John Richard Green
