How to Use rubber-stamp in a Sentence

rubber-stamp

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  • During the fall 2023 season, Gucci and Miu Miu were among the top brands who rubber-stamped the look.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2023
  • And many say their view that results can’t be trusted should be reason enough not to rubber-stamp local vote counts.
    Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
  • The county board was expected to give its rubber-stamp, final approval last fall, but the item was pulled from its agenda.
    Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The idea was to bring working-class residents into government and turn the board into more than a rubber-stamping mechanism for the mayor.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Once the committee approves the candidate the Prime Minister can make a recommendation to the King, who will rubber-stamp the appointment.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The three-day presidential vote starting on Sunday is expected to rubber-stamp Mr. el-Sisi’s hold for another six-year term: None of his three challengers stand a chance of unseating him.
    Vivian Yee, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The county essentially rubber-stamped the reopening soon afterward—a far cry from what Musk had invited.
    Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • On Monday, China announced that the premier’s news conference, marking the end of the country’s annual rubber-stamp legislature, will no longer be held.
    Li Yuan, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • North Korea possesses the kind of dynasty that Russia does not, even though each Kim family successor gets rubber-stamped as leader by a party congress.
    Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Wednesday’s suit takes issue with former Twitter officers rubber-stamping the legal firm’s bill.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
  • In March, Russia’s rubber-stamp Duma, or parliament, passed a law making criticism of the country’s mercenaries punishable by up to five years in prison.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
  • When the 63-year-old is confirmed as premier by China’s rubber-stamp parliament on Saturday, he will be expected to repeat a similar feat on a national scale.
    Lyric Li, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Dual strikes’ effect on nominations Emmy voters often are criticized for rubber-stamping the same names year after year — but not in 2024.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
  • Schumer’s delegation also met with the head of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the commerce minister and Wang, the country’s highest-ranking diplomat.
    Ken Moritsugu, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Opponents of the Chevron doctrine argue that judges apply it too often to rubber-stamp decisions made by government bureaucrats.
    Mark Sherman, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The sudden move, approved by the top decision-making body of China’s rubber-stamp parliament on July 25, followed weeks of speculation and rumor about the fate of Qin, who had been absent from public view over the month prior.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
  • For the first time in a half century, those delegates will not perform the ceremonial duty of voting for the winner of the Democratic primaries, a rubber-stamp process that’s heavy on celebration and light on drama.
    Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 22 July 2024
  • That’s why the CEO of America’s biggest bank, at one point, decided to personally rubber-stamp or veto every branch closure to ensure the institution didn’t lose any more customers to rivals.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 30 May 2024
  • Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to complete the biggest government reshuffle in a decade at the annual meeting of the rubber-stamp legislature.
    Eric Baculinao, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • One of them is typically proposed by the government, the other by the opposition; lawmakers rubber-stamp the decision in a symbolic vote, and the remaining seven places are filled by ministers, senior judges and lawyers.
    Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • The legislation was approved by a top decision-making body within China’s rubber-stamp parliament on Wednesday.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 29 June 2023
  • For decades, California’s government unions have bankrolled the campaigns of politicians who, once in office, return the favor — rubber-stamping union demands, no matter how extraordinary.
    Will Swaim, National Review, 16 June 2023
  • The Russian parliament rubber-stamped a bill that outlawed discrediting the Russian military or spreading false information a week after Moscow's troops rolled into Ukraine.
    Dasha Litvinova, ajc, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The annual meeting of the country’s rubber-stamp legislature and top political advisory body is traditionally a stage for the central government and the premier to shine.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Judges aren't rubber-stamping prosecutors' fine requests.
    Michael Kunzelman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
  • Judges aren’t rubber-stamping prosecutors’ fine requests.
    Michael Kunzelman, Anchorage Daily News, 28 May 2023
  • The National People's Congress is set to open on Saturday and expected to continue for approximately two weeks as delegates rubber-stamp a reshuffling of personnel.
    Fox News, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Zhao leads China’s rubber-stamp national legislature and is a member of its powerful seven-man Politburo Standing Committee.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But since the 1990s, when Democrat Bill Clinton was president, conservatives have increasingly complained that judges were rubber-stamping new federal regulations.
    David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • Cigna is using an algorithm to review — and often reject — hundreds of thousands of patient health insurance claims, a new lawsuit claims, with doctors rubber-stamping those denials without individually reviewing each case.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 26 July 2023
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rubber stamp

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  • The legislature has been nothing more than a rubber stamp for the President.
  • That court is gonna be a rubber stamp for all of this kind of stuff.
    Leila Atassi, cleveland, 30 June 2022
  • The rubber stamp is available in two sizes and comes with an ink pad.
    Noma Nazish, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The technique uses a rubber stamp with a grid of tiny bumps on the bottom.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Some rubber stamps go missing from the office one night, and the new boy is the prime suspect.
    María Gainza, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
  • At the moment the district council is just a rubber stamp.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Indeed, in Baseball, the appeal is a far cry from a rubber stamp.
    Marc Edelman, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • If that doesn’t change in the days leading up to November 12th, the judge more than likely will give it the rubber stamp.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2021
  • But The Post found that the review process effectively amounts to a rubber stamp.
    Nate Jones, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
  • That does not make the FISC a rubber stamp, as ill-informed critiques deduce.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 14 Dec. 2019
  • That works out to be near the highest amount (in round numbers) that Team Biden can rubber stamp without Congress.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Instead, the board also voted 4-1 to rubber stamp the agreement.
    oregonlive, 27 July 2021
  • Danielson said that there's no reason for the City Council to rubber stamp anything.
    Sara Pagones | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The executive board is often seen as a rubber stamp, and even more so the full membership.
    Stephen Wade, Houston Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2018
  • But all those images came from the same location on the original rubber stamp.
    Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Judge Kavanaugh would also act as a rubber stamp for President Trump’s fraud and abuse.
    Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 11 July 2018
  • Instead, the Russian parliament, a rubber stamp for the Putin regime, moved only the upper limit, widening the range by three years, to 18 to 30.
    David L. Stern, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • Lamb has voted 93% of the time with Nancy Pelosi and will be a rubber stamp for the dangerous liberal policies.
    Eric Bradner, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The Board didn’t rubber stamp the extension and expects a more detailed report next meeting.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
  • There, the press largely acts as a rubber stamp on behalf of oligarchs who run some of the least competitive companies in the world.
    J.j. Colao, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Perez denied accusations that the board had become the chief’s rubber stamp.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The three-term incumbent countered that Hutchison was a rubber stamp for Donald Trump.
    Lewis Kamb, The Seattle Times, 8 Oct. 2018
  • All that was needed was a rubber stamp from the bloc’s political leaders.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The announcement will kick off months of talks that could take up to a year before the European Parliament rubber stamps the target.
    Angela Dewan, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Each of those judges has already been appointed and confirmed — the public vote is one final rubber stamp.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The only step left was for the county to finalize the deal, which is usually a rubber stamp decision.
    Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2024
  • I Board of Directors is expected to apply the rubber stamp at its April 28 meeting.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The folks behind Laurelhurst Market were the first to bite, opening a Big’s Chicken outpost in a former rubber stamp shop in 2018.
    oregonlive, 12 May 2022
  • His new book challenges simplistic interpretations of Thailand’s judges and courts as mere rubber stamps.
    Duncan McCargo, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Such committees can be used to essentially rubber stamp factory decisions, such as an employee committee in Sri Lanka that agreed to unfavorable terms for overtime pay.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019

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