status
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In the Cornell backlash, he blamed "people who felt that the status quo was being threatened, people who didn't like the idea of women being treated equally, people who wanted to shut up women."
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
“They didn’t want to rubber-stamp another term of it. Councilmember Raman stepped up with courage and grace to take on the status quo. It’s never easy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Rudolph Randa, chief judge of a Wisconsin district court, said in 2007 that he would take senior status if and only if a successor was appointed before George W. Bush left office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Raman, a member of city council and Indian immigrant, ran on a platform of change and fixing the "broken status quo and the politicians who failed them over and over again".
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
All five women earned full military and cosmonaut status, but only one would be picked to go into space.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
The Social Security Administration did not respond to a request for comment, or to questions regarding why there was so much incomplete data or what about citizenship statuses were inaccurate.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
“This is probably going to put them in touch with lots of other Latinos of different migration statuses in a way that is not necessarily about competition, but much more about helping,” Mora said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
And we were checking our statuses on the website to see if we had a valid driver’s license for over a month.”
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
Nearly four million households in the U.S. include a mix of legal statuses, with at least one resident living in the country unlawfully and at least one other here lawfully, such as a U.S. citizen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
His statuses didn’t provide much context about his life, only that he’d been a loner who preferred runs with his golden retriever Turbo instead of social outings with his classmates.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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