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status quo ante in American English (ˈænti) Latin the state of affairs existing prior to a given event Examples of 'status quo ante' in a sentencestatus quo ante Those millions do not face a return to the status quo ante.There are powerful forces arguing for the return to the status quo ante.Yet restoring the status quo ante will be phenomenally hard.Its decision yesterday to slightly tighten policy merely restores the status quo ante.The navy practises on the river in the hopes of a restoration of the status quo ante.The case for strong and independent professions is not the case for a return to the status quo ante.On the surface everything will gradually revert to the status quo ante, but below the surface a lot will have changed.Their corruption was not definitive, however, and the marital status quo ante has been restored. |