How to Use rubber stamp in a Sentence

rubber stamp

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Having the rubber stamp of approval by the federal government is wrong and an affront to New Jersey.
    Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 6 May 2023
  • For a personalized touch, purchase a rubber stamp at the craft store and create your own monogrammed, custom gift tags.
    Lindsay Weinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2019
  • During the argument, some circuit judges took umbrage at this image of the lower court reduced to a rubber stamp.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 15 Aug. 2020

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