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

“Well, certainly your honor. It’s been amended,” Giuliani replied, mooting nearly everything he had just argued.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2020

The parties eventually agreed on questioning behind closed doors and release of a public transcript, mooting the case.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2019

These motives were inconsistent with the mooting of the Bessarabian question, and the statement so often made in the Press that Roumania demanded, and still demands, that lost province from Russia are absolutely groundless.

From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris