Synonyms for square one
square one

Princeton's WordNet

1. square onenoun

   the situation in which you begin an endeavor and to which you return if your efforts fail

   "the police are now back at square one after having arrested and released 27 men"; "she has tried to diet but always ends up back at square one"

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1. House Republican Leader Jim Durkin:

   It won't be signed into law and we'll be back at square one.

2. Dimitrios Psaltis:

   The shape of the shadow will be almost a perfect circle in Einstein's theory, if we find it to be different than what the theory predicts, then we go back to square one and we say, 'Clearly, something is not exactly right.'.

3. Richard Drouaillet:

   It's been devastating. We haven't really got any leads. We haven't really gotten much help from the police department, we feel like we're still in square one.

4. Margaret Ore:

   We're kind of back to square one.

5. Sheriff Rick Singleton:

   We know that there was never any effort to go to the courthouse. They went straight to Florence Square parking lot, dumped Vicky White patrol car, got in the other vehicle and left, we assume they are going to ditch Vicky White patrol car at the first opportunity when they get wind that the description is out there, so we're back to square one.