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moot as in:  moot question

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  • Rather a moot point now, wouldn't you say?†  (source)
  • Historians still debated whether Da Vinci wrote this way simply to amuse himself or to keep people from peering over his shoulder and stealing his ideas, but the point was moot.†  (source)
  • With no Maps, the point was moot.†  (source)
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  • Mrs. Dawes's opposition to the engagement was rendered moot by the subsequent elopement of Simon and Serena.†  (source)
  • When the creation of man was first mooted and when, even at that stage, the Enemy freely confessed that he foresaw a certain episode about a cross, Our Father very naturally sought an interview and asked for an explanation.†  (source)
  • Lieutenant Awn raised one gloved hand, gesturing toward the mootness of Lieutenant Issaaia's point.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • As soon as he saw me approaching with the toboggan, my plan became moot.†  (source)
  • Rieux knew that desperate solutions had been mooted, such as throwing the corpses into the sea, and a picture had risen before him of hideous jetsam lolling in the shallows under the cliffs.†  (source)
  • Papa continued, "First, by not creating at all, these questions would be moot.†  (source)
  • He guessed that something bearing on himself had been either discussed or mooted.†  (source)
  • Judge Davies spoke emphatically: "You are excused, gentlemen, but you understand that this is a moot question.†  (source)
  • Cowboy Golf In the whirl of the succeeding days it was a mooted question whether Madeline's guests or her cowboys or herself got the keenest enjoyment out of the flying time.†  (source)
  • Well, that's a moot point.†  (source)
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