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moot

[moot] / mut /


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Sure, there could be a last-minute plane swap that will render all the research moot, but it’s a good starting point.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

They also argued that the case was moot because the advertising campaign was ending.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

The only other Southern Section action would be forcing Inglewood to forfeit games the players played in, but the school lost to Westlake, making a forfeit moot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

For example, when the VSC gifted Lewis Hamilton the lead in Barcelona, even if that was rendered moot by Antonelli's subsequent retirement.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

“So, are you still going on your college tour, or is that kind of moot now?”

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

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

Justice had once been administered in the popular moots, though from very early times there had been social distinctions.

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

However, some analysts had questioned Firmus’s mooted valuation given it has just two facilities operating and five in development across Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The idea of building a Dangote refinery in east Africa was first mooted in April, and Lamu was chosen as the site only in July, while the company plans to have it operating by 2030.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 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

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

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

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

From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2019

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 Alexander Pope


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