How to Use moot in a Sentence

moot

1 of 2 adjective

• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Soon, the point is moot: Drenka, only in her fifties, dies.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• 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
• If the justices were to say no, the case against Google argued Tuesday could be moot.
  — Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
• Within the next few years, those health questions should be moot.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Of course, this is all moot if USC drops a game within this gantlet.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• If the court rules against the Biden administration, then the point is moot.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
• Her Queen Olga piece was moot, of course, since the paper had run the out-of-date May 2 account.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
• 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
• 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
• Once the Cowboys drafted Ezekiel Elliott with the fourth pick in 2016, the discussion was moot.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• But today, planes are much quieter, and so this issue is now moot (or mute).
  — Stephen Moore, Washington Examiner, 8 June 2023
• And the question of delight shouldn't be moot.
  — Edward Hoagland, Harper's, June 2007
• With the packaging set to change next year, probing for minifigures may be moot.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
• The new law made the fight moot by affirming that state policy is paramount.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The owners are said to be looking for a new location, making Howard’s point moot.
  — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Games are likely to be cloud-based soon, rendering the idea of console platforms moot.
  — Jonathan Anastas, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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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moot

2 of 2 verb

• 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
• This is not the first time that the idea of a President pardoning himself has been mooted.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 4 June 2018
• 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
• Even in Kenya, where there is more freedom of speech, restrictions were mooted ahead of last year’s election.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The kingdom has mooted turning part of the border into a nuclear waste dump.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• Will the debate be mooted by the FCC's net neutrality repeal?
  — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Ukraine’s prime minister has now mooted the idea of a compromise with Mr Kolomoisky.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Phoebe Philo, the former Celine designer, is among those that have been mooted as a successor.
  — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2019
• 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
• Until his father’s death in 2015, Prince Mutaib had been mooted as a possible future king.
  — The Economist, 5 Nov. 2017
• 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
• Mr Pompeo has mooted a slightly longer timetable: by January 2021.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• 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
• The shows are often cast with cultural diversity in mind, so issues of race are largely mooted.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 14 May 2018
• 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
• Having baulked at the initial price mooted, Madrid club president Florentino Perez is now keen on a compromise.
  — SI.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The game, expected to be played in Bloomington, has been mooted publicly for several days, and is now officially set.
  — Zach Osterman, The Courier-Journal, 4 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024