- 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
Ms. Prelogar wrote that “the mooting of the underlying case would also moot petitioners’ attempt to intervene.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
The parties eventually agreed on questioning behind closed doors and release of a public transcript, mooting the case.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2019
Both Weld and Whittier endeavored to dissuade the sisters from mooting the question of women's rights at all, and to urge them to devote their voice and pen to the "main principle" exclusively.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
