status quo
Example Sentences
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The status quo results in donors either reducing the size of their gifts or sticking to stocks and cash.
“In the world that changes as much as it does, in some form or another trying to preserve the status quo is a mistake,” he said in the February earnings call.
From Los Angeles Times
The most likely threat to this status quo comes from Saudi Arabia.
From BBC
Instead, Mr. Mahan thinks the state should focus “on waste, fraud and abuse. I don’t get politicians who defend the status quo and pretend that government couldn’t possibly be more efficient, more effective, more technology-enabled.”
The tyranny of the status quo isn’t ending.
From MarketWatch
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