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
• But weird can be good, especially at the Emmys, an awards show that tends to rubber-stamp nominees year after year.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2024
• The new board is almost certain to vote to fire Martinez, allowing Johnson to replace him with an appointee who will rubber-stamp the union’s demands.
  — The Editors, National Review, 8 Oct. 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
• That means that a lazy human reviewer could rubber-stamp an AI ruling that a court can't overturn, experts suggested.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Ishiba will assume the nation’s top job on Oct. 1 following a rubber-stamp parliamentary vote.
  — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Additional debt issuance in China is typically subject to formal approval by its rubber-stamp parliament, which is expected to meet in coming weeks.
  — Reuters, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
• Judges aren't rubber-stamping prosecutors' fine requests.
  — Michael Kunzelman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 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
• As a result of all of this, local authorities often serve as rubber stamps for laws and regulations proposed by offshore private-sector actors.
  — Nicholas Shaxson, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024