rubber stamp
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The board approves the EDC’s annual budget but when it comes to approving actual projects, it largely functions as a final rubber stamp.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Checks on Andrew's trips were given a "rubber stamp", he recalls, rather than any scrutiny.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
"If we are rubber stamp, we will not propose so many comments," Leung said, referring to the approval of a homegrown national security law last year.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2025
It’s merely a rubber stamp and a whitewash.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2025
First there came mimeographed letters of commendation, then real letters signed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and not with a rubber stamp either.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Ads will invite individuals to speak on the phone with a hired “healthcare professional” who will rubber-stamp a prescription and authorize the compounded medication to be shipped directly to the unwitting patient.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
But it is far from a rubber-stamp process.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
He packed oversight commissions with appointees who would rubber-stamp his delusions of grandeur and did the same with the Kennedy Center, whose new board promptly renamed the performing arts venue for him.
From Slate ● May 18, 2026
The law was approved on Thursday as the annual rubber-stamp parliamentary session drew to an end.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
Once the mould is secured, it is merely a question of pressing india-rubber-mixture into it and then heating the rubber until it hardens—just as a rubber-stamp is made.
From The Gloved Hand by Burton Egbert Stevenson
