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[stamp] / stæmp /






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He said the party would consult on measures including scrapping stamp duty, capital gains tax and tax on rental income for a decade for homes built on brownfield sites.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

It showed a departure stamp in her passport: immigration at the Nepal border was done.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

“It’s to children’s fiction that you turn if you want to feel awe and hunger and longing for justice,” she writes, “to make the old warhorse heart stamp again in its stall.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave its stamp of approval, ending a three-year process to allow the plant to power on.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

He’d flipped through the empty pages countless times, but none of them had a stamp.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

She notes that the proportion of food stamps that were overpayments went up by only about 60%.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

Those aircraft, along with six others, are all commemorated in the second set of stamps:

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

For those who hit all bookstores — with stamps to show for it — the grand prize awaits: a raffle entry for a $325 gift card.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Postal Service does not receive tax dollars to support its normal operations, and instead relies on the revenue it generates from things like stamps and package deliveries.

From MarketWatch Jul. 8, 2026

The right-hand corner of the box was decorated with a mess of stamps.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

The model is stamped into the silicon during manufacturing, and it will never run anything else for as long as it exists.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

The system relies on facial recognition and fingerprints instead of the age-old practice of getting your passport stamped at a booth.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

In the 64th minute of Wednesday's knockout game against Bosnia and Herzegovina, Balogun was controversially judged after a VAR review to have stamped on the back of defender Tarik Muharemovic's foot.

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

The club rubber stamped a tournament with Udinese and Barcelona earlier this week.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

I’ve seen their photo albums and it’s stamped like bam! all over his face.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

"He wants to stamp his authority and I think that's what he was doing there - stamping his authority before he gets in the ring," promoter Frank Warren said.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

NBA boss Adam Silver is stamping a slender foot like Bugs Bunny.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

New Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh isn’t a stranger on Wall Street, but the mystery to investors is whether he’s as committed as he sounds to stamping out U.S. inflation.

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 2026

He said everything was done within governance frameworks, and responding to a point raised by Evans, said there was a degree of "rubber stamping" by him in some instances.

From BBC May 26, 2026

Around her, masked and veiled men and women crowded onto the terraced ledges, stamping their feet as the action proceeded below.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo




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