as in free hand
permission to do something in any way you choose to do it
We gave the decorator carte blanche to furnish the house.
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Yonezawa has carte blanche, and her resulting artwork is to be unveiled some time later this year.
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Miles Socha, WWD, 10 Jan. 2025
And if this deal falls apart—as all previous proposals have—there is a very plausible scenario where all this begins with Benjamin Netanyahu receiving carte blanche to minimize humanitarian aid allowed into Gaza and ratcheting up the war.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
Her pitch was simple: Homosexuality is a sin, and if homosexuals were given carte blanche to glamorize their ‘deviate lifestyle’ in Miami-area classrooms, the American family would be destroyed and the American way of life would disappear.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
Retailers, brands and mills have carte blanche to rename the solutions to fit their branding.
—Fairchild Studio, WWD, 10 Dec. 2024
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Miles Socha, WWD, 10 Jan. 2025
And if this deal falls apart—as all previous proposals have—there is a very plausible scenario where all this begins with Benjamin Netanyahu receiving carte blanche to minimize humanitarian aid allowed into Gaza and ratcheting up the war.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
Her pitch was simple: Homosexuality is a sin, and if homosexuals were given carte blanche to glamorize their ‘deviate lifestyle’ in Miami-area classrooms, the American family would be destroyed and the American way of life would disappear.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
Retailers, brands and mills have carte blanche to rename the solutions to fit their branding.
—Fairchild Studio, WWD, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Carte blanche.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carte%20blanche. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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