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
It’s merely a rubber stamp and a whitewash.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 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
But it is far from a rubber-stamp process.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 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
With Erivo’s Elphaba taking a backseat to Ariana Grande’s Glinda this time around, Actors Awards voters hesitated to rubber-stamp her ticket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026
But ministers avoided a legislative skirmish over the proposals last year, as they were not included in the law to rubber-stamp the 2024 Budget.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
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
