rubber stamp

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

"It's very easy to be a rubber stamp, get that cheque, be nice to everyone else and just go along and be re-elected," Spartz said.

From BBC ● May 18, 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

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

That sort of thing was just a novel-writer's rubber-stamp convention.

From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield