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US
/ˈstætəs, ˈsteɪtəs/
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[ UK /stˈeɪtəs/ ]
[ UK /stˈeɪtəs/ ]
NOUN
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a state at a particular time
the current status of the arms negotiations
a condition (or state) of disrepair -
the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life
he had the status of a minor
the novel attained the status of a classic
How To Use status In A Sentence
- China says it respects the legitimate status of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) while calling on Palestinian forces to end conflicts.
- The authors of the second paper admit that “other variables … influence the binding avidity (preference), such as type of SA (sialic acid of the receptor site) and glycosylation and sialylation of the hemagglutinin close to the receptor binding site. †These factors all vary obviously and there are other variables in the equation as well including the status of specific areas of the immune system. Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer
- Keeping specific goals and metrics for testing in mind not only helps track status and results, but also avoids the last-second scramble to pull together necessary reports.
- The RAM has a first location for storing the data signal and a second location for storing the initialization status indicator.
- Mostly, however, she seems to be held in some kind of incommunicado status until they need a sound bite, and then they throw the power switch, download the text and out she spits it, with all the emotion of an automaton. Condi a Waste of Time
- One in 20 changed their marital status to appeal to employers and five per cent falsely claimed to play golf. The Sun
- The Guidance concentrates on the organizational status of internal audit and the objectivity of internal auditors in achieving the requisite independence.
- It was not just established states that were eager narrowly to define the right of self-determination as a right end colonial status.
- But a tiny, naturally-occurring steviol glycoside constituent (about two to four percent of a whole leaf) of the plant, called rebaudioside A (also known as reb A, rebiana, stevia extract), was passed into Generally Regarded As Safe (GRAS) status by the FDA in 2008. Pooja R. Mottl: Can Stevia Solve Our Obsession With Sweetness?
- It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia. NYT > Home Page