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Definition
the existing state of affairs- 'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- Supporters of the status quo argue that passing new, tissue-specific legislation is unnecessary, and that the current oversight practices are enough.Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.Ellen Hopkins -- Identical
- He proposed the impossible, as Harry Williams has remarked: "to conduct the war for the preservation of the status quo which had produced the war."Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
- Neither cared to disturb the status quo ante.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- But slowly, things returned to status quo: Lindsey had a boyfriend, and Colin had a broken heart and a Theorem to finish.John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines
- Five weeks since Trey went back to school, and life as a nanny has become the status quo.Ellen Hopkins -- Glass
- Right, but you do understand that the status quo is a problem for us?Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
- As an old-guard mayor, he had the impossible task of trying to maintain the status quo in a town that was changing radically all around him.Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
- The South African government had powerful allies in Great Britain and the United States who were content to maintain the status quo.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- But for many, Vietnam opened the door to questioning the status quo.Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
- With my old friends mired in status quo, how could I explain my summer enlightenment?Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
- He's asking questions of the status quo.Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
- The alternative presses of the 1960s were created to contest the status quo.Rudolfo Anaya -- Take the Tortillas out of Your Poetry
- Living off of beans is proper English, which brings with it the connotation of higher society, accepted standards, and the status quo.Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
- Consequently, a situation of status quo had resulted, and so year after year she was retained under guardianship.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- No objection to the status quo.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- I think it's her signal that everything is okay, or status quo, and she's just here to deliver an update, not to drop a bomb.Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
- These shells, they don't like the status quo.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- Now they were protesting the continuation of the status quo.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains