How to Use rubber-stamp in a Sentence

rubber-stamp

1 of 2 verb
  • The last time, when Iger picked Chapek, the board rubber-stamped it.
    — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Every single one an Emmy winner rubber-stamped by the Globes.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the academy’s directors branch hasn’t rubber-stamped the DGA’s slate since 2010, so someone’s probably out.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
  • A day earlier, Putin rubber-stamped a decree that could change the nuclear strike threshold observed by his nation's armed forces.
    — Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 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
  • Liverpool and Barcelona, currently occupying the top two spots in the table, are through to the play-offs at the very least, though both will be hoping to rubber-stamp their progress to the last 16 in the coming week by confirming a top-eight finish.
    — Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
  • That's a decent-sized majority by modern standards, and most of those Republicans are loyal to Trump and likely to rubber-stamp all his picks.
    — Tia Yang, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • That phrasing, legal experts said, suggested that the judge was unlikely to rubber-stamp the government’s effort.
    — Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • When the film begins, Iman is tasked with rubber-stamping harsh sentences for protesters rallying in the streets against the authoritarian state.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • This bill comes at a time when the Public Service Commission, which critics have long accused of being a rubber-stamp for utilities, is facing unusual scrutiny from the state’s highest court.
    — Emily L. Mahoney, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • The thousands of delegates who gathered in Beijing for the week-long meetings of China’s rubber-stamp legislature voted almost unanimously Tuesday to approve the government work report and the budget.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025

rubber stamp

2 of 2 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
  • None is a rubber stamp and could pose major problems in a second Trump term.
    — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The fact that he was fired from Mar-A-Lago proves one thing: there is no oversight, just a rubber stamp congress.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Those prints are made by using the body casts essentially as rubber stamps.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • To judge from the Schenley Park proposal, however, that doesn’t appear to mean a rubber stamp from regulators.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025

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