Examples of status quo ante in a Sentence
Casey Michel, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
The other solution is to declare remote working over and revert to the status quo ante.
—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
In all of these cases, the prior assumption reversed but is likely to re-reverse to the status quo ante in the next couple of years.
—Brad McMillan, Forbes, 17 May 2022
Companies that suffer a strategic, structural change in their business prospects may never recover, and shares that look undervalued may in fact reflect a new reality that cannot be expected to return to the status quo ante.
—George Calhoun, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
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
With that, Flanagan launches into a multipronged defense of the status quo ante at UC.
—Washington Post, 29 July 2021
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Latin, state in which previously
1800, in the meaning defined above
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status quo ante
noun
Latin, state in which previously
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