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  • Yet Crake had accepted the status quo, or so it appeared.  (source)
  • He dared to be different, to challenge the status quo.  (source)
  • Later on at the dinner table he was still animated, though, which is the status quo on Sundays.  (source)
    status quo = typical state of affairs
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  • — is there a status quo in the house?  (source)
    status quo = typical 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.  (source)
    status quo = existing state of affairs
  • This time around, the Klan was not confined to the South but ranged throughout the country; this time, it concerned itself not only with blacks but also with Catholics, Jews, communists, unionists, immigrants, agitators, and other disrupters of the status quo.  (source)
  • But slowly, things returned to status quo: Lindsey had a boyfriend, and Colin had a broken heart and a Theorem to finish.  (source)
    status quo = normal
  • 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.  (source)
    status quo = existing state of affairs
  • Consequently, a situation of status quo had resulted, and so year after year she was retained under guardianship.  (source)
    status quo = typical state of affairs
  • Now they were protesting the continuation of the status quo.  (source)
    status quo = existing state of affairs
  • The South African government had powerful allies in Great Britain and the United States who were content to maintain the status quo.  (source)
  • With my old friends mired in status quo, how could I explain my summer enlightenment?†  (source)
  • Neither cared to disturb the status quo ante.†  (source)
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