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Definition

describing an issue or discussion as irrelevant due to another issue or decision

or:

arguable with no clear-cut answer (especially with regard to case law)

It's a moot point.

may render our actions moot
"Kind of a moot issue," Jalil said wearily. "Since we don't know how to stay here, how to escape Everworld."
Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna

moot = describing an issue or discussion as irrelevant due to another issue or decision

that is a moot question
"The SAPL is moot," Admiral Kinyon said as Tyler bent over, holding his knees and panting.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
And if they did know more than they should, they hadn't damaged him, so the point was moot.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
Papa continued, "First, by not creating at all, these questions would be moot.
William P. Young -- The Shack
It was a moot point, regardless: Kasischke and Groom were in such bad shape that going anywhere was out of the question for the time being.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
As soon as he saw me approaching with the toboggan, my plan became moot.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
" "Well, that's a moot point.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
He guessed that something bearing on himself had been either discussed or mooted.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
His purpose in all this was to make anything Paquette could go after in his cross moot.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
With no Maps, the point was moot.
James Dashner -- The Maze Runner
"Rather a moot point now, wouldn't you say?"
Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
This Mrs. Hodge is clomben on the staire, And litel weneth that she moot descenden; But alday faileth thing that fooles wenden!
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
You'd be dead, so the forgiveness would be a moot point."
Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility
Anyway, it was all moot—because without a tape, there was no proof of the exchanges between Blane and Santorelli.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
But then, as we made our way around the edge of the big field, my regular bodyguard found me, so it became a moot point.
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
We don bonnets to protect our fair complexions from the threat of freckles, though it is, of course, a moot point for me.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
I couldn't argue, with the eyes or the motivation, and it was a moot point anyway.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight

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