mooting

Example Sentences

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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

On Tuesday, the same day that the Supreme Court opinion came down mooting the issue for the time being, the State Department finally released some of those updated numbers.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2018

Alas! thou art all rough-coated, in ill plight, jaded, foundered, crestfallen, and drooping, like a mooting duck, and feedest here on nothing but coarse grass, or briars and thistles.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony