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

If it declines, the documents would be released, effectively mooting the case in a victory for the House.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2021

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

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2020

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 Grimké, Archibald Henry