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The other solution is to declare remote working over and revert to the status quo ante.
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Robert Sher,
Forbes,
21 June 2022
Either way, the result—again—is just a version of the status quo ante for Britain, only indisputably worse.
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Tom McTague,
The Atlantic,
19 June 2022
This makes the outraged reaction to Henry Kissinger’s suggestion of a deal around a return to the status quo ante bizarre.
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The Editors,
National Review,
8 June 2022
No longer priestesses and priests in the cult of the Western Logos, no longer implicit defenders of the status quo ante, literary critics become warriors for synchronic justice conceived as catharsis.
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Will Self,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Nov. 2021
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Robert Sher,
Forbes,
21 June 2022
Either way, the result—again—is just a version of the status quo ante for Britain, only indisputably worse.
—
Tom McTague,
The Atlantic,
19 June 2022
This makes the outraged reaction to Henry Kissinger’s suggestion of a deal around a return to the status quo ante bizarre.
—
The Editors,
National Review,
8 June 2022
No longer priestesses and priests in the cult of the Western Logos, no longer implicit defenders of the status quo ante, literary critics become warriors for synchronic justice conceived as catharsis.
—
Will Self,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Nov. 2021
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status quo ante
noun
status quo an·te
-ˈkwō-ˈan-tē 
: the state of affairs that existed previously
restore the status quo ante
Etymology
Latin, state in which previously
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