status quo

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Recent Examples of status quo As for what’s happening with sisters Agnes and Ada, played by Baranski and Nixon, respectively, Nixon, pipes in to reveal — just a bit — saying that things won’t be ‘status quo’ by any means for the pair. Anne Easton, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025 The Israeli strikes also blew up the uneasy nuclear status quo that existed in the Middle East for years while raising a daunting question: What happens if Iran decides that the only true deterrent is to build a bomb? Nik Popli, Time, 19 June 2025 In April, the U.S. reaffirmed its commitment to support the existing status quo as China conducted large-scale military exercises off the coast of the island. Dylan Butts, CNBC, 16 June 2025 And voters, fed up with images of store looting and open-street drug use, were clearly willing to try Prop. 36 over an unacceptable status quo. Tom Philp, Mercury News, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for status quo

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