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

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

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2021

The methods, however, by which Pope had obtained his priority would not permit him to plead it, nor was he likely, by mooting the question, to risk the revelation of his plot.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander