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
But, he added, the National Assembly will not be "a rubber stamp body".
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
Checks on Andrew's trips were given a "rubber stamp", he recalls, rather than any scrutiny.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 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
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
I don't like to hear you make such a flat, conventional, rubber-stamp comment.
From The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
