How to Use status quo in a Sentence

status quo

noun
Definition of status quonext
Synonyms for status quonext
  • He is content with the status quo and does not like change.
  • What is the status quo around the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif?
    — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 4 Jan. 2023
  • But the status quo is something that Ben Gvir and Smotrich can work with.
    — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The status quo allows for Muslims alone to worship at the site, where the Al-Aqsa mosque stands.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The book became a guide for many restaurateurs fed up with the status quo.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The thought of taking a risk and giving up the security of the status quo could be scary.
    — Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
  • That’s a lot of money to spend on a horrific status quo.
    — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The day until which Smart-TD, the last union to reject the September deal, has agreed to maintain the status quo.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The goal is to drag out the debate and introduce doubt where there shouldn’t be in order to defend the status quo.
    — Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
  • To do nothing would be a signal to fans that the status quo is acceptable.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
  • In much of the world, people are dissatisfied with the status quo and eager to see changes for the better.
    — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The result is a shaky status quo with both the U.S. and Iran avoiding escalation.
    — Time, 7 Aug. 2023
  • But the facts on the ground suggest that the region cannot return to its unstable prewar status quo.
    — Aaron David Miller, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Another stunt to mess with the status quo, to ruffle feathers, to challenge.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2022
  • One of them is Biggs, who has played a key role in the effort to block McCarthy and has cast him as an agent of the political status quo.
    — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2023
  • In that way, the Air Raid remains as much about the moxie of its coach as anything else, rewarding those who refuse the instinct to skate along with the status quo.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2022
  • In her comments on Friday, Pelosi said the visit to Taiwan had been about maintaining the status quo.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 5 Aug. 2022
  • But to rights groups, that’s an unacceptable status quo.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • One side promotes the status quo; the other calls for revolution.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Another College Football Playoff rankings reveal brought more of the status quo – at least at the top of the food chain.
    — Dallas News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • New York and Atlanta, the fourth and fifth seeds in the 2021 playoffs, struggled last season and understood the status quo wasn’t sufficient.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2022
  • In situations like this, peace is just another word for the status quo.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The union wanted to maintain the status quo on benefits, arguing that the district could afford to do so.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • At least, that option has the potential to reimpose the terms of a status quo acceptable to Western powers on Iran.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Enter Email Sign Up The main reason melting snow won’t change the river’s status quo is its reservoirs are already at such a deficit.
    — Brian K Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Since 2015, the ministry has been ruled by Prince Mohammed, whose leadership has upended the status quo in the Middle East.
    — Craig Whitlock and Nate Jones, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2022
  • But when there is that much unhappiness with something that has become such a big part of life in the U.S., the status quo seems unlikely to go on for too much longer.
    — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Over the last four years, our greatest achievements were accomplished when both chambers worked hand-in-hand with my office to put the people of our state first – ahead of the status quo.
    — Georgia News, ajc, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But within the comfortable stasis of the sitcom, real-world change has crept in to revise a status quo more malleable than most.
    — Charles Bramesco, Chron, 9 Feb. 2023
  • For many reasons, the New 52 was a flop, and DC’s continuity has been largely reset to its pre-Flashpoint status quo.
    — Joe George, Men's Health, 15 June 2023

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