imprimatur
Example Sentences
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It got a $7 billion subsidy from Washington, and it got the federal government’s imprimatur to sell cellular plans to first responders, a business now worth billions.
In addition to possessing fewer resources and lacking official imprimatur, nonprofit organizations, with more flexible budgets but also more reliance on donors, are geared towards actionable projects rather than long-term maintenance that require massive investments.
From Salon
They give new research the imprimatur of rigor and validity and have been a forum for publishing findings that have advanced human health and scientific progress across fields.
She needs no institution’s imprimatur, and there’s no corner of the industry promising anything she hasn’t already achieved.
From Los Angeles Times
The press’s hysterical reaction was perhaps inevitable given the convention of describing it as an “administration plan,” a “White House plan,” with the implied institutional imprimatur.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
