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

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

The great movement toward corporate concentration might have collapsed and antitrust law would have become almost moot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

That suggests the March ruling was not moot.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Glasnow hit the IL Friday because of back spasms, so the question of whom the Dodgers drop from the rotation to make room for Blake Snell is moot for now.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2026

He hadn’t planned to keep the information about the hunting party from her forever, just until they were far enough into the Greater Jungle to make it a moot point.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

O friend! what moots it to them or to us who gave this epic or that lyric to immortality?

From The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac by Eugene Field

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

But he has no evidence of that, and other theories from corruption to organised crime have also been mooted.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

If the contest - mooted for October or November this year - is timed to suit prime-time viewers in the USA, the main event might have to start as late as 04:00 GMT.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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

It is not likely that if this question had been mooted in the like circumstances in any of the neighbouring kingdoms, there would have been a moment’s hesitation in answering it.

From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

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

The administration’s brief said “the mooting of the underlying case would also moot petitioners’ attempt to intervene.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 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

Not that there is objection to your mooting them as subjects of conversation, and as proceeding from yourself, but not as matters of executive determination.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph