status quo ante
Noun
Meaning
status quo ante (plural status quo antes)
The state of things as they were before; a preexisting state of affairs.
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Examples
After each SNAFU was brought to the Chairwoman’s notice, efforts are promised to rectify – but NEVER returning the status quo ante.
I have the foreboding sense, however, that we will emerge from this and find ourselves in a world trying to recreate the status quo ante.
In effect, it results in a return to the status quo ante.
The group therefore calls on the EEDC to reverse forthwith its obnoxious decision on standalone prepaid meters and maintain the status quo ante.
The complaint also cited the status quo ante order the SC issued against the House when the latter was in the process of impeaching Gutierrez.
Rebooting a computer just returns it to the status quo ante; it doesn’t improve performance.