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a person who adopts the appearance or behavior of another especially in an obvious way
an author who was ultimately just another rubber stamp of Hemingway
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Recent Examples of rubber stamp
New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2025
The approval of 22 of the remaining 29 owners is not exactly a rubber stamp, as former player agent Jeff Moorad learned the hard way when his five-year plan to buy the Padres crumbled after the January 2012 quarterly meeting, leading Moores to search for a new buyer.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2025
Last month, the North's rubber-stamp congress made no mention of the South, experts have noted, but Kim is unlikely to backtrack on his purge of unification symbols anytime soon.
—Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Hegseth is clearly unfit for the position and the committee and full Senate should understand that their function is not to be a rubber stamp, but to put tough questions to Hegseth.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2025
The approval of 22 of the remaining 29 owners is not exactly a rubber stamp, as former player agent Jeff Moorad learned the hard way when his five-year plan to buy the Padres crumbled after the January 2012 quarterly meeting, leading Moores to search for a new buyer.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
Verb
If we are not allowed to hear and see candid responses from everyone, then Lee could be rubber-stamped as the next mayor.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2025
Last month, the North's rubber-stamp congress made no mention of the South, experts have noted, but Kim is unlikely to backtrack on his purge of unification symbols anytime soon.
—Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rubber stamp
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California Scenario is a coming-of-middle-age love story exploring the intergenerational echoes of trauma, survival, and healing.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
25 Feb. 2025
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Her sentences, always at the shore of some great nothingness, have the intricacies and echoes of a conch shell.—
Audrey Wollen,
The New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Investors are questioning the artificial intelligence trade that sent power stocks soaring last year, as the company viewed as best positioned to strike a data center deal still has not signed an agreement.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
1 Mar. 2025
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While that escalated into an all out trade war with China in 2019, by 2020 Trump backed down and signed a trade agreement.—
Sergei Klebnikov,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Indian media reported that there was a bomb threat against the aircraft, and Flight Emergency, a flight-tracking account on X with more than 195,000 followers, also wrote that the diversion was due to a bomb threat.—
Mark Joseph,
Newsweek,
24 Feb. 2025
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Price’s YouTube channel has since amassed nearly 1.4 million followers, with an additional 1.1 million followers on Instagram.—
Taryn White,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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One ballot was tossed out because it wasn’t initialed by an election judge, and Balich won the position via a lottery.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
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The serial numbers on those seals are written on a form that is then initialed by the chief inspector and a member of the Board of Absentee Canvassers.—
Alison Dirr,
Journal Sentinel,
30 Oct. 2024
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And Michigan remembers the harmful EV mandates that have forced compliance rather than actually allowing a regulatory environment that permits innovation.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
2 Mar. 2025
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Listen to this article Illinois may soon join a growing number of states permitting community colleges to offer four-year degrees, and Aurora-area colleges are enthusiastic about the possibility.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Mar. 2025
Verb
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But Johnson won a key victory last week when Mr. Trump endorsed his chamber's budget outline.—
Kaia Hubbard,
CBS News,
25 Feb. 2025
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Except that to endorse or criticize Apple for embracing DEI or not is to completely miss the point.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Digital platforms, including mobile apps, chatbots and social media, can enable companies to engage with customers in real time and provide instant responses to queries and concerns.—
Naeem Ghauri,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Treasury remains committed to disrupting the schemes that enable Iran to send its deadly weapons abroad to its terrorist proxies and other destabilizing actors.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Rubber stamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rubber%20stamp. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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