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The debate as to whether there should have been alterations to the leadership after the Ashes has become a moot point, because England have nevertheless ended in a post-Bazball era.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Chavez-DeRemer’s attorney told the Washington Post: “The moot report confirms that Secretary Chavez-DeRemer did not violate any laws.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Charter made the 13 years of that moot by buying Cox.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

The question of bridesmaids’ dresses became moot when the engagement was broken. noisome.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

The Inns of Court were spared; their moots and readings did no perceptible harm, if little perceptible good.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

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

Other options that have been mooted included giving pigeons contraceptives.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

And some of the bank's governors had already mooted a possible rates hike, she added.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 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

I need not say that the subject has not been mooted to her, and it was because I desired the matter to be settled before we left for Europe that we have lingered here.

From A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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

Perhaps it was originally written, to bring Benedick into a mooting of affection; to bring them not to any more mootings of contention, but to a mooting or conversation of love.

From Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Samuel Johnson