Sample sentences for STATUS QUO

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Definition

the existing state of affairs

Despite the rhetoric, the new agreement largely maintains the status quo.

status quo = existing state of affairs

She says she's the candidate to change the status quo.

status quo = existing state of affairs

'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.'
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

status quo = (a Latin expression meaning) the existing state of affairs

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

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