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
And it would be a mistake to think Judge Ho will simply act as a rubber stamp.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 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
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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
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
And King was rejoicing over a fountain pen, a pocket-knife, a silk muffler, a rubber-stamp outfit, and some new gloves.
From Marjorie's New Friend by Carolyn Wells