How to Use status quo ante in a Sentence

status quo ante

noun

• There is, in short, no going back to the status quo ante Trump.
  — Jessica T. Mathews, The New York Review of Books, 16 Jan. 2020
• In any case there seems little chance of a return to the status quo ante.
  — Jonathan Foreman, Newsweek, 29 July 2014
• To anyone who has lived through the chaos of the last four years, a reversion to the status quo ante is tempting.
  — Emma Ashford, Star Tribune, 26 Aug. 2020
• This sounds like great news, and is without doubt worlds better than the status quo ante of no ambitions at all.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 18 Mar. 2021
• For its part, Bhutan issued a démarche asking Beijing to return to the status quo ante.
  — Harsh V. Pant, WSJ, 5 July 2017
• Klobuchar's appeal in a campaign against Trump would be a return to status quo ante normalcy.
  — Edward Morrissey, TheWeek, 12 Feb. 2020
• This was fine, since most shows essentially returned every episode to the status quo ante.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 13 May 2018
• That only works if the status quo ante is far more appealing than the status quo, however.
  — Edward Morrissey, TheWeek, 12 Feb. 2020
• Scalia, that's the status quo ante from before that nomination.
  — Fox News, 28 June 2018
• Yet a return to the status quo ante Trump would be neither possible nor desirable.
  — Jackson Lears, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• Even as schools return to in-person teaching, there may be those who see the experience of the last 16 months as a blip, an aberration before a return to the status quo ante.
  — Nick Morrison, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• The Arab world is not far from returning to the status quo ante of the late 20th century, though with a very different distribution of power among the chief actors.
  — chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• But instead of returning them to the status quo ante, why not take this opportunity to rapidly paint in bike lanes and adapt our streets to better suit the needs of pedestrians.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 30 Apr. 2020
• But these films are insistent upon going back to a status quo ante, thus negating all that came before in the original trilogy.
  — Simon Abrams, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2017
• Some of it is a result of not knowing for sure what is safe and what isn't, but some of it is also about the return to the social status quo ante after more than a year of extremely limited interaction.
  — Nicholas Goldberg, Star Tribune, 14 Apr. 2021
• Until that point, Lincoln would have been willing to return to the status quo ante bellum: the end of the rebellion with the seceded states reintegrated into the Union with slavery intact.
  — Mackubin Thomas Owens, National Review, 24 Mar. 2020
• Assertions that this is merely a return to some imaginary status quo ante, cannot hide the fact, that this is the very first time, that the FCC, has disavowed substantive protections for consumers online.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 2017
• His would in many ways be a return-to-normalcy campaign, offering to take voters back to some vague status quo ante, when the steady hand of the Obama administration guided the country.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2021
• Faced with vehement opposition to this move, however, the cabinet voted in May to restore the status quo ante.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 5 June 2018
• What’s at issue here is not summary deportation, but basically a return to the status quo ante of 2012.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 14 Sep. 2017
• The best spin that officials can put on it is that their leaders are playing a long game, waiting for popular sentiment to turn against the protesters and reconcile itself to something like the status quo ante.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• Now, Republicans and Democrats are essentially reverting to the status quo ante.
  — John Bolton, WSJ, 27 July 2021
• The most successful attempt this country ever made at catching up with the rest of the industrialized world and the primary policy goal of conservative Republicanism is to gut it and return us all to the status quo ante.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 20 Feb. 2018
• But industry leaders are certainly pushing for a return to the status quo ante, where employees come together around conference tables rather than in Zoom conferences.
  — Ira Bedzow, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• This left agencies unsure in some instances about whether federal dollars carried restrictions against anything other than restoring the status quo ante—even though that would mean reproducing the same vulnerabilities revealed by the storm.
  — Fortune, 11 Sep. 2017

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