imprimatur

Example Sentences

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

Nearly two dozen journals from two of the fastest growing open-access publishers, including one of the world’s largest journals by volume, will no longer receive a key scholarly imprimatur.

From Science Magazine

It gives the event an official halo under which The Family can parade and elevate its friends and allies, claiming the imprimatur of the presidency and official Washington.

From Salon

But it also had the haughtier, more conceptual imprimatur of Post-Minimalism, arguably the last avant-garde art movement of classic modernism.

From New York Times