Talk:summit

RFV discussion: August 2024

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summit

"To attend a summit" - hard to search for, sorry, but I looked and couldn't find anything. Justin the Just (talk) 10:03, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

I don't doubt that it could be and probably has been used this way, but I couldn't find any results on Google Books or News for "summit" (conference between leaders) used as a verb, searching with the names of U.S. Presidents back to Reagan, or Putin or Sunak (did not check Yeltsin, Gorbachev, or past UK PM's, or Chinese leaders), using "summits (with)" "summiting", "summited", etc. All of the uses of "summit" or "summits" that I saw were nouns. But someone else may have more luck! P Aculeius (talk) 16:39, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

The sense is supported by three quotations, one dating back to 1955, in the OED. All the quotations are from newspapers. Newspapers.com would therefore probably be a good place to look for quotations, but unfortunately (and annoyingly) at the moment there is some technical problem and it can't be accessed through the Wikipedia Library. — Sgconlaw (talk) 17:22, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

If the OED has 3 cites can I withdraw this rfv rather than put make anyone else try this tricky search? Justin the Just (talk) 22:12, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

@Justin the Just: I don’t see why not. — Sgconlaw (talk) 22:16, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

I managed to track down some cites of this sense, hiding amid the more numerous cites where it means "climb a mountain". - -sche (discuss) 22:58, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

@-sche: cool! Passed. — Sgconlaw (talk) 22:03, 3 August 2024 (UTC)