moot

Where losing a 4-0 advantage ranks in the pantheon of Celtic failures is a moot point.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The worry over Grande’s visible emaciation rendered the video itself moot.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

Within sociology, it meant that any inequality among groups was de facto the result of discrimination, rendering moot other possible theories, Redstone says: “We’re treating questions around causation as settled.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

That suggests the March ruling was not moot.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

But when the box was opened, that all became moot.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

The states on Tuesday said the addition of Alex Fairly, who owns a medical billing negotiation firm and lives in Amarillo, moots the motion to transfer the case.

From Reuters ● Mar. 1, 2023

“The president’s pardon, which General Flynn has accepted, moots this case,” the Justice Department filing said.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2020

Five of those suspects are in the county jail pending trials — four of them held without bond on serious charges that preclude release, which Elrich noted moots the urgency in the detainer debate.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2019

“New legislation or regulations giving plaintiffs all they seek moots the case,” wrote Zachary W. Carter, corporation counsel for New York City.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2019

Next came the moots, after which he slammed his chamber-door, and set to work with his commonplace book to index all the law he had amassed during the day.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

A similar arrangement is also mooted in a meeting with Orr.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

And some of the bank's governors had already mooted a possible rates hike, she added.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Given the going rate for midfielders, Newcastle would be in a strong position to command a premium for the Brazil starter, far more than the £60m mooted.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

A report that OpenAI was considering delaying its mooted public offering further soured already weak sentiment around the artificial-intelligence boom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Finally they agreed to decide the matter by tossing a coin,—the usual method of settling mooted points.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Cyrus Townsend Brady

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

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 William Morris Hughes