How to Use moot in a Sentence
- The court ruled that the issue is now moot because the people involved in the dispute have died.
- I think they were wrong, but the point is moot. Their decision has been made and it can't be changed now.
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To me, though, this week was a moot point on the defense — more needs to be seen.
—Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
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The Supreme Court dismissed the case as moot since Trump was out of office by the time the court turned to it.
—John Fritze, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
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Soon, the point is moot: Drenka, only in her fifties, dies.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
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But the high court ordered the case to be thrown out in April 2021, after Trump left office and the case was moot.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2023
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If the justices were to say no, the case against Google argued Tuesday could be moot.
—Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
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Within the next few years, those health questions should be moot.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
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If the justices were to say no, the case against Google argued on Tuesday could be moot.
—Adam Liptak, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
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That point has been moot more often than not: Penix has been sacked just 10 times this year.
—Kevin Skiver, Detroit Free Press, 8 Jan. 2024
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Of course, this is all moot if USC drops a game within this gantlet.
—Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
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If the court rules against the Biden administration, then the point is moot.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
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Her Queen Olga piece was moot, of course, since the paper had run the out-of-date May 2 account.
—Richard Byrne, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
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But this is a moot point now that Cheney will be out of Congress in a matter of months.
—Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2022
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The court cases about it, which have been kicking around for a long time now, will likely be moot.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
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Once the Cowboys drafted Ezekiel Elliott with the fourth pick in 2016, the discussion was moot.
—Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2023
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The work on view will rotate over the coming years, so perhaps the question will be moot as new work supplants the old.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
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The issue is now moot and since no damage was done, no damages should be assessed, the brief said.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2023
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But today, planes are much quieter, and so this issue is now moot (or mute).
—Stephen Moore, Washington Examiner, 8 June 2023
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With the packaging set to change next year, probing for minifigures may be moot.
—Telis Demos, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
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The new law made the fight moot by affirming that state policy is paramount.
—Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
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The owners are said to be looking for a new location, making Howard’s point moot.
—Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
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By denying the petition as moot and ending the case, the court found that the band turned over all the documents to Mars and there is nothing more to do.
—Bill Donahue, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2024
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The Justices have now said Acheson Hotels v. Laufer is moot, yet the legal issue is far from it.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
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They would have also been tasked with recommending whether LaPierre should be ousted from the helm of the group, which is now moot.
—Melissa Chan, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2024
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That brought a third appeal, this time to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, where the case was still pending and will now become moot.
—Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2022
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Games are likely to be cloud-based soon, rendering the idea of console platforms moot.
—Jonathan Anastas, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2023
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Then again, if Snyder sells (for what would likely be a record price), White’s conclusion could be a moot point.
—Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2022
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In 2021, when Trump was no longer in office, the Supreme Court ordered the lower court to vacate a ruling against Trump and dismiss it as moot.
—Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 15 Mar. 2024
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The court battle will likely be rendered moot thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court taking up the same question in an upcoming case.
—Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 29 Feb. 2024
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That such a plan could even be mooted reflects the fact that, again, Trump does not understand the cure.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2020
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The argument could be moot by the time Saturday night rolls around, though.
—Brian Stultz, ajc, 27 Nov. 2017
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This is not the first time that the idea of a President pardoning himself has been mooted.
—Stephen Collinson, CNN, 4 June 2018
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Of course, as is a given these days, the Italians will not be willing to let their man leave on the cheap, with a fee of more than €60m already mooted.
—SI.com, 13 Sep. 2019
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Even in Kenya, where there is more freedom of speech, restrictions were mooted ahead of last year’s election.
—The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
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Chelsea were mooting £20m as an asking price, and he's proven to be a success already in black and white under Benitez.
—SI.com, 11 July 2018
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The kingdom has mooted turning part of the border into a nuclear waste dump.
—The Economist, 21 June 2018
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Will the debate be mooted by the FCC's net neutrality repeal?
—Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2017
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There are also plans to shake up the routing in the future, with ideas such as a non-stop leg around Antarctica or even a non-stop lap of the planet being mooted.
—Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 18 May 2017
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If cap and trade isn’t providing a hard cap, a guarantee, its advantages over a tax are mooted.
—David Roberts, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018
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Investors need to work out whether its mooted valuation of close to $7 billion is more fiction than fact.
—Jacky Wong, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
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Ukraine’s prime minister has now mooted the idea of a compromise with Mr Kolomoisky.
—The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
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The administration’s motion said the lawsuit was mooted by the debt ceiling bill that Biden signed into law on June 3.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
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Reuters mooted that Google’s decision may have been driven in part by the fact that sales of Google Home are lagging those of Amazon’s rival hardware.
—Alan Murray, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2017
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What’s more, the possibility of this tie-up has been so long mooted that some bid premium should have been baked into the target’s share price for a while.
—Chris Hughes | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2019
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The idea mooted in the India Office paper was of at least two Pakistans with no federal union, however loose.
—Raghvendra Singh, Quartz India, 9 Aug. 2019
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Phoebe Philo, the former Celine designer, is among those that have been mooted as a successor.
—Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2019
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While such a move would be unlikely (keep your eyes on Italian clubs) the fact that it's being mooted at all shows how highly he is regarded around the continent.
—SI.com, 21 Aug. 2019
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Until his father’s death in 2015, Prince Mutaib had been mooted as a possible future king.
—The Economist, 5 Nov. 2017
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The 23-year-old may be open to the prospect of leaving Spurs for permanent first-team action however, with a €7m valuation being mooted.
—SI.com, 21 June 2018
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Mr Pompeo has mooted a slightly longer timetable: by January 2021.
—The Economist, 5 July 2018
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The premier was unable to carry out wholesale cabinet changes that had been mooted before the election, with most ministers staying in the same jobs.
—Tim Ross, Bloomberg.com, 12 June 2017
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The shows are often cast with cultural diversity in mind, so issues of race are largely mooted.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 14 May 2018
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His autobiography was required reading for men in suits in the 1980s, and he was even mooted for president.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 3 July 2019
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Having baulked at the initial price mooted, Madrid club president Florentino Perez is now keen on a compromise.
—SI.com, 31 Oct. 2017
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The European Union is mooting new legislation, said to come into effect in late 2024, to address this matter.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
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The retaliation on Wednesday, with mooted levies on $50 billion of U.S. imports -- the same value as Trump’s targets -- took many by surprise.
—Bloomberg.com, 5 Apr. 2018
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The British racer has spoken before about life outside F1 and even mooted a second career in fashion, music or acting.
—Sarah Holt, CNN, 11 July 2019
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Defendants cannot moot or narrow this case by the post-filing 'voluntary cessation' of some but not all of their illegal practices,'' Fox wrote.
—Samantha Matsumoto, OregonLive.com, 27 June 2017
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Mr Ren may hope that his mooted sale of Huawei’s 5G technology will give him sufficient fuel for the company to fly ever higher.
—The Economist, 11 Sep. 2019
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