statuses quo
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
plural of status quo
Example Sentences
- "Sir Julian Paunceforte will purchase a farm near Washington when he returns to this country. His chief crops will be protocols, moduses vivendi, statuses quo, etc."
- "WIDOWS GET STATUSES QUO / Each Side in Protective League Feud Asks for One and Court Finds Easy Way to End Melee if He Can Only Dig Up Enough to Go Around"
- "Of course, the usual function of courts is to protect statuses quo and to forestall change; […]"
- "Similarly, it takes no great historical or contemporary exposure to admit truth in the Marxist claim that religion can prop false consciences and unjust statuses quo."
- "People who confuse laws or established cultural outlooks or statuses quo concerning power with the will of God are always making themselves liable to mindless hatreds."
- "Richardson (1987, p. 341) has written more generally of critical researchers’ efforts to study accounting as a “legitimating institution,” ranging from the existing social, political, and economic statuses quo (Cooper, 1980) to ideology (Tinker et al., 1982)."