rubber stamp
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But they also show the Fed Chair isn’t looking for a group to rubber stamp his views.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
But, he added, the National Assembly will not be "a rubber stamp body".
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
Checks on Andrew's trips were given a "rubber stamp", he recalls, rather than any scrutiny.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
By the late 1850s, Northerners were equally fed up with the Supreme Court, which under Chief Justice Roger B. Taney was seen as a rubber stamp for slaveholders’ goals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 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
But it is far from a rubber-stamp process.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
She added: "Thousands of young seabirds have been spared from a brutal death because NatureScot chose to follow the evidence rather than simply rubber-stamp another licence to kill."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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
Thousands of delegates from across China will convene for a carefully orchestrated affair in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, largely to rubber-stamp decisions by the ruling Communist Party under leader Xi Jinping.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
In practical application, the rubber-stamp method means a rack of rubber stamps placed in the most advantageous position.
From Higher Education and Business Standards by Willard E. (Willard Eugene) Hotchkiss
