rubber-stamp
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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
The law was approved on Thursday as the annual rubber-stamp parliamentary session drew to an end.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 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
These rubber-stamp responses, these unconsidered generalizations, originate in instinctive desires, or in preferences acquired through habit.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman
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
That would leave only a few formal steps -- a final rubber stamp by member states expected in coming days or weeks, and publication in the EU's official journal -- for it to take effect.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
Checks on Andrew's trips were given a "rubber stamp", he recalls, rather than any scrutiny.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
Few translators, few resources, in the middle of nowhere, a court with a rubber stamp.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 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
