Status quo ante

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Status quo ante, Latin for, "the way things were before," incorporating the term status quo, may refer to:

• In law, the objective of a temporary restraining order or a rescission in which the situation is restored to "the state in which previously" it existed
• Status quo ante bellum, meaning "the way things were before the war"
• Another name for the Reset button technique, a technique in fiction writing