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And maybe it’s a moot point: Supplying all the copper to wire them would have led to a 25% shortfall of supply for the vital metal by 2040, according to S&P Global.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The debate as to whether there should have been alterations to the leadership after the Ashes has become a moot point, because England have nevertheless ended in a post-Bazball era.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Charter made the 13 years of that moot by buying Cox.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

We know any such charges would be litigated to death, and by the time it finally came to trial, he might very well be dead, and the case would be moot.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

It was a moot point, regardless: Kasischke and Groom were in such bad shape that going anywhere was out of the question for the time being.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

Each village had its "best" men, generally four in number, who attended the moots of the larger districts called the Hundreds; and the "best" were probably those who had inherited or acquired the best homesteads.

From The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

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

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

One potential opportunity is their mooted move to the A-list haven of the Cotswolds, where they are believed to have spent time earlier this summer.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

SpaceX’s initial public offering in June, and mooted IPOs by OpenAI and Anthropic, could generate tens of billions more dollars for schools—assuming high-flyers don’t vamoose to avoid a hefty tax bill on their windfalls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

There have been cryptic and conflicting messages on the project's location for months, with Tanzania and the Kenyan port of Mombasa also mooted.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

This railway was the outcome of a project first mooted in 1799, for a canal from Wandsworth to Croydon.

From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

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

Ms. Prelogar wrote that “the mooting of the underlying case would also moot petitioners’ attempt to intervene.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

Mr Johnson's government has previously raised the prospect of relocation before, first mooting the move in January 2020.

From BBC ● May 16, 2022

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

From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2019

Here he not only refuses to account for my parents, by including them in his return and proposition, but he at the same time attempts to intimidate me by mooting the charge of theft.

From The Fugitive Blacksmith or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington by James W. C. Pennington