imprimatur
Example Sentences
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They give new research the imprimatur of rigor and validity and have been a forum for publishing findings that have advanced human health and scientific progress across fields.
She needs no institution’s imprimatur, and there’s no corner of the industry promising anything she hasn’t already achieved.
From Los Angeles Times
The press’s hysterical reaction was perhaps inevitable given the convention of describing it as an “administration plan,” a “White House plan,” with the implied institutional imprimatur.
The Treasury imprimatur and financing by sophisticated institutions may have given investors a false sense of security and caused them to relax underwriting standards.
Ordinary experiences, imperfections, sadness, and anxieties are increasingly given the imprimatur of medical disorders, she concludes: “In other words: we are not getting sicker — we are attributing more to sickness.”
From Salon
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